34 Albert Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. Shop tenement. 1 related planning application.
34 Albert Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- seventh-bracket-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1999
- Type
- Shop tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Late 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan shop tenement with gothic details. Polished sandstone ashlar at ground; squared rubble with polished and tooled sandstone ashlar dressings at 1st floor; random rubble to sides. Aproned base course; cornice course between floors; wrought-iron window box holders to outer 1st floor windows; corniced eaves course. Roll- moulded openings windows at ground; pointed arched windows flanking round-arched doorway at ground; segmental-arched windows with stop-chamfered reveals and long and short margins at 1st floor.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: trefoil-finialled gabled entrance with acanthus leaf consoles over doorway and flanking nook shafts; inscription, 'SE DEUS NOBISCUM' to gablehead; modern wrought-iron 2-leaf guards over 2-leaf timber panelled doors; window at 1st floor above. Large shop window at ground with window at 1st floor above in bays flanking.
Modern shop windows at ground; 2-pane timber sash and case windows above. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; bracketed and gabletted skewputts; corniced rubble gablehead stacks to N and S; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative downpipe brackets.
INTERIOR: modern shop at ground; unseen above, 1998.
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