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Latitude: 58.9805 / 58°58'49"N
Longitude: -2.9612 / 2°57'40"W
OS Eastings: 344845
OS Northings: 1010772
OS Grid: HY448107
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.XYB
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.HJ4T
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JQ+6G
Entry Name: 22 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 22-26 (Even Numbers) Victoria Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381537
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36689
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381537
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Terrace house
18h century with later alterations. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay (6-bay at ground) rectangular-plan crowstepped gabled small terrace comprising 2 dwellings converted as shops at ground; 2-bay house to left (Number 22 and 24) 3-bay house to right, (Number 26). Cement-rendered and lined at ground; harled above.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 2-3. 2-bay group to left: 2 modern timber panelled doors, set close, with letterbox fanlights at ground in bay to right; window at 1st floor above. Enlarged shop window at ground in bay to left; window at 1st floor above. 3-bay group to right: deep-set architraved small-pane door at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Enlarged window at ground in bay to right; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to right.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: Numbers 16-20 (not listed) abutting to left of centre. Window at each floor in bay to right; attic window; gablehead stack.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank with blocked attic window to left of gable; gablehead stack.
Modern shop windows at ground to Numbers 22 and 24; timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights elsewhere. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: converted as shops at ground; unseen above, 1998.
Converted to a Butchers shop and a Delicatessen at ground, accommodation remains above. The building retains its crowstepped gables and harled stacks. Typically for town houses of both Orkney and Shetland, there is a wide gap between the 1st floor windows and the eaves.
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