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1 Cromwell Road, Kirkwall

A Category B Listed Building in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.9848 / 58°59'5"N

Longitude: -2.9559 / 2°57'21"W

OS Eastings: 345154

OS Northings: 1011246

OS Grid: HY451112

Mapcode National: GBR M42Z.LLQ

Mapcode Global: WH7C4.KFMH

Plus Code: 9CCVX2MV+WJ

Entry Name: 1 Cromwell Road, Kirkwall

Listing Name: 1-9 (Odd Numbers) Cromwell Road

Listing Date: 8 December 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 381646

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36794

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200381646

Location: Kirkwall

County: Orkney Islands

Town: Kirkwall

Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East

Traditional County: Orkney

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Description

Early 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey, row of 5, 3-bay, plain symmetrical rectangular-plan houses, some with crowstepped gables forming part of group including St Catherine's Place (listed separately; see Notes). Harled. Deep-set openings.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: deep-set doors (various modern replacements) at ground in each bay to centre. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.

2- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple Welsh slate to Numbers 1, 3 and 5; grey slate to Number 7; traditional stone slated roof to Number 9; stone ridges; harled, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks; stone skews between Numbers 1 and 3, and between 5 and 7; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

Statement of Interest

B-Group with Numbers 9 to 12, 13 and 14, 15 to 18, 19 and 20, 21 and 22, 23 and 24 and 25 and 27 St Catherine's Plcace. This row of houses forms part of a small development which includes the eastern side of St Catherine's Place, constructed as workers' houses by a farmer, Andrew Drever, in the early part of the 19th century. Rows of houses on St Catherine's Place to the south, (listed separately), stand in the traditional manner with their gabled ends to the street with flagstoned closes between. Collectively they form a surviving group of some quality. The houses on Cromwell Road retain their substantial harled stacks and some crowstepped gables.

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