We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 58.9839 / 58°59'1"N
Longitude: -2.9579 / 2°57'28"W
OS Eastings: 345037
OS Northings: 1011140
OS Grid: HY450111
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.RPC
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.JGP7
Plus Code: 9CCVX2MR+GR
Entry Name: 33 Bridge Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 31 and 33 Bridge Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381616
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36764
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 33 Bridge Street
ID on this website: 200381616
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Possibly late 17th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay near-symmetrical rectangular-plan crowstepped-gabled house, (Number 33) with later, lower single bay piended addition to left (S), adjoining single storey, single bay former house (Number 31) with crowstepped gable to N. Number 33: cement rendered at ground; harled at 1st floor and to rear. Base course; band course between floors. Plain margins to openings at ground; block cills to 1st floor windows. Number 31: cement rendered. Base course. Painted margin to window at ground, stone mullions to window at 1st floor.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Number 33: deep-set, modern shop door at ground in bay to left of centre. Window at each floor in bay to centre and to flanking bays to left and right. 2 windows, set close in bay to outer left; window at 1st floor above. Number 31: large shop window at ground; tripartite window at 1st floor above.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: Number 33: 4-bay: forestair to boarded door at 1st floor in bay to left of centre. window at 1st floor in bay to outer left. Window in each bay to right. Number 31: full-height, pitched-roofed addition in bay to right with window at 1st floor; boarded door at ground in right return; timber forestair to boarded door at 1st floor above. Lower L-plan lean-to addition to left.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: Number 33: piended addition at ground: narrow, blank slightly advanced full height bay to centre; narrow window in bay to right. Window set to right of gable to main block at 1st floor; gablehead stack above.
Modern shop windows at ground; 4- and 2-pane timber sash and case windows above; lying pane window at 1st floor to addition to Number 33. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead stacks to N and S; red clay cans; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIORS: converted as modern shop at ground; unseen above, 1998.
Prominently sited at the south end of Bridge Street, these buildings retain their crowstepped gables. The ground floor shop at Number 33 has been extended to include Number 31. Number 33 displays a distinctive wide gap between the 1st floor windows and the eaves, typical of town houses in both Orkney and Shetland.
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
