Orkney Tourist Board, 6 Broad Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. House. 2 related planning applications.

Orkney Tourist Board, 6 Broad Street, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
forgotten-corridor-mint
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 1999
Type
House
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Late 18th century. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay symmetrical, rectangular-plan house, converted as tourist office, with piended dormers and crowsteps at rear. Harled with painted cement dressings. Base course; eaves course. Plain margins to windows; strip quoins.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: corniced and architraved doorpiece at ground in bay to centre; timber panelled door with geometric fanlight; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking; 2, evenly disposed, 3-light dormers above.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay, near-symmetrical. Architraved door with rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to right of centre; window at 1st floor; attic window to gable above. Window at each floor in bay to left of centre; gablehead stack above.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at each floor in bay to right of centre; small attic window to gable; gablehead stack above.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; 4-pane timber sash and case windows to central dormer lights; rooflight to centre of W pitch. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews to W; crowsteps to E; harled, corniced gablehead stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: converted at ground to tourist office; timber skirting boards and timber-panelled doors; unseen above.

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