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3 School Place, Kirkwall

A Category C Listed Building in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

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Coordinates

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

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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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