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27 Dundas Street, Stromness

A Category B Listed Building in Stromness, Orkney Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.9606 / 58°57'38"N

Longitude: -3.3002 / 3°18'0"W

OS Eastings: 325312

OS Northings: 1008883

OS Grid: HY253088

Mapcode National: GBR L561.JYK

Mapcode Global: WH6B1.81PK

Plus Code: 9CCRXM6X+6W

Entry Name: 27 Dundas Street, Stromness

Listing Name: 27 Dundas Street Including Walled Garden and Outbuilding

Listing Date: 8 December 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388195

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41829

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Stromness, 27 Dundas Street

ID on this website: 200388195

Location: Stromness

County: Orkney Islands

Town: Stromness

Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles

Traditional County: Orkney

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Description

Earlier-mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan, asymmetrical house with crowstepped gable to W, adjoining 3-storey, 3-bay house to E (see notes), built on ground rising to W. Re-pointed coursed rubble. Coal shed sited across close to S; garden sited on terraced ground to W.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: part-glazed boarded door at ground in bay to centre; non-aligned small window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to right. Window at ground in bay to left; non-aligned window at 1st floor above.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank crowstepped gabled wall with gablehead stack.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Caithness slate roof; stone ridge; small, evenly disposed rooflights; harled, coped stacks to E and W; cast-iron downpipes with uPVC gutters.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

OUTBUILDING AND WALLED GARDEN: rubble lean-to coal shed to S accessed via boarded door in boundary wall; roughly coursed rubble wall with rubble cope enclosing garden to W at rear.

Statement of Interest

Adjoining pair of houses to E (Nos 23-25) listed separately.

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