The Girnel Keeper's House, 20 Harbour Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
The Girnel Keeper's House, 20 Harbour Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- eastward-thatch-harvest
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18th century, skewputt dated 1643. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical girnel Keeper's house with 2-bay crowstepped gabled block to left with slightly recessed entrance bay, abutting Girnel House (listed separately) to right, (W). Random rubble with red sandstone dressings. Long and short margins to windows; long and short quoins.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window at each floor in each bay to gabled block to left; gablehead stack above. Architraved door way with round-arched Georgian fanlight at ground in linking bay to right; window at 1st floor above.
4- and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Traditional, graded stone tiled roof; stone skews; cavetto-moulded skewputts; dressed rubble gablehead stack to N; cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
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