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2-4 Dundas Street, Stromness

A Category C Listed Building in Stromness, Orkney Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.9609 / 58°57'39"N

Longitude: -3.2997 / 3°17'58"W

OS Eastings: 325344

OS Northings: 1008916

OS Grid: HY253089

Mapcode National: GBR L561.K6D

Mapcode Global: WH6B1.81YB

Plus Code: 9CCRXP62+94

Entry Name: 2-4 Dundas Street, Stromness

Listing Name: 2 and 4 Dundas Street, Including Outbuilding, Slipway and Quay

Listing Date: 24 March 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392226

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45358

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200392226

Location: Stromness

County: Orkney Islands

Town: Stromness

Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles

Traditional County: Orkney

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Description

Late 18th to early 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey with attic and basement, 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical house with 3-bay gabled shop elevation to street, (W), built on ground falling to E; chamfered SE angle at ground. Harl-pointed random rubble (painted cement-rendered and lined at ground to street with cement-rendered and lined margins to openings; band course between ground and 1st floors to W. Eaves course.

S (No 4) ELEVATION: timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking.

W (No 2, SHOP) ELEVATION: stone step to deep-set part-glazed modern door with 2-leaf storm doors at ground in bay to centre. Window at ground in bay to left; window at 1st floor; small attic window above. Window at ground in bay to right. Wide gablehead stack above.

E (SEAWARD) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated with multi-flue gablehead stack above.

Variety of glazing patterns including 12-pane timber sash and case and modern fixed windows to shop. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; rooflights to S pitch; cement-rendered random rubble coped gablehead stacks to E and W; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: refitted shop interior to number 2; number 4 not seen, 1997.

OUTBUILDING: single storey, 3-bay symmetrical lean-to random rubble, rectangular-plan store shed sited to E of main building. Part-glazed modern timber door in bay to centre with fixed small-pane timber-framed windows in each bay flanking; corrugated-iron roof; coped rubble stack to NE angle; uPVC rainwater goods.

QUAY AND SLIPWAY: open-jointed Caithness flagstones to close along S side; grassed quay with flagstone border to E; common rubble-lined slipway flanking.

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