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Latitude: 58.9839 / 58°59'1"N
Longitude: -2.9553 / 2°57'18"W
OS Eastings: 345191
OS Northings: 1011140
OS Grid: HY451111
Mapcode National: GBR M42Z.LY0
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.KGY7
Plus Code: 9CCVX2MV+HV
Entry Name: 5 East Road, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 5 East Road, Including Boundary Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393099
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45990
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393099
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Earlier 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan, symmetrical house with modern, flat-roofed, single-storey garage with pedestrian entrance flanking to right, forming part of similarly dated development to S side of East Road. Harled. Eaves course. 1st floor windows set close under eaves; cement cills.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: deep-set timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking. Modern boarded doors to pedestrian entrance and to garage in projection to outer right.
E AND W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: garage at ground (garage to Number 7 abutting E elevation); blank at 1st floor; gablehead stack above.
12-pane timber sash and case windows with external double-glazing at 1st floor; uPVC multi-pane windows at ground with top-hung upper lights; small rooflights to N pitch. Traditional graded stone tiled roof; stone ridge; cornice harled gablehead stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low harled walls with stone cope to N elevation; decorative cast-iron railings with similar central gate.
The building forms part of a largely intact 19th century development along East Road. It remains relatively unaltered in plan and retains its original stone tiled roof. Of particular interest are the substantial gablehead stacks, especially the one to the east, and the original decorative cast-iron railings along the north elevation.
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