West End Hotel, 14 Main Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
West End Hotel, 14 Main Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- half-brick-crimson
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- Hotel
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1824 with later alterations and additions. 3-storey, 4-bay near-rectangular-plan, symmetrical crowstepped-gabled former house (now converted as hotel), with later cast-iron balcony over main entrance, with railings to terrace around base at ground. Harled. Painted plain margins to openings. Urn-finialled, fluted columnar supports to balcony with intersecting circles to balustrade.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone flight of steps to 2-leaf boarded doors at ground in bay offset to right of centre; window at each floor above. Small window at ground and 1st floor to right of main door; deep-set part-glazed door to right. Window at each floor in bay to outer right. Window at each floor in 2 bays to left of centre.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR; converted to hotel; upper floors not seen, 1998.
RAILINGS: later cast-iron railings to ground-level terrace.
Detailed Attributes
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