Latitude: 58.9813 / 58°58'52"N
Longitude: -2.9574 / 2°57'26"W
OS Eastings: 345066
OS Northings: 1010853
OS Grid: HY450108
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.ZZ8
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.JJY7
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JV+G3
Entry Name: 3 School Place, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 3 School Place, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393125
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46014
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393125
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
late 18th to early 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, crowstepped-gabled house with gabled end to street, built on ground falling to N. Harled. 1st floor window set close under eaves.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: deep-set timber door at ground in bay to centre. Window at each floor in bays flanking.
E (SCHOOL PLACE) ELEVATION: window at each floor to left of centre; gablehead stack above.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: small window at ground in bay to centre; non-aligned window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to right. Window at ground in bay to left.
Timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. Graded grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled corniced gablehead stacks to E and W; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS: tall, harled walls enclosing rectangular-plan garden to S.
A good surviving example of an late 18th to early 19th century, plain classical town house which retains its crowstepped gables.
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