Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BACK ROAD, OLD NORTH MANSE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATESLB45347

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
24/03/1998
Local Authority
Orkney Islands
Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Burgh
Stromness
NGR
HY 25206 9127
Coordinates
325206, 1009127

Description

Dated 1865 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical T-plan gothic-detailed former manse with steeply gabled advanced central bay and single storey pitch-roofed wing extending N at rear. Re-pointed stugged and snecked sandstone ashlar with polished and droved sandstone dressings. String course between ground and 1st floors continuous as stepped hood moulds, corbelled over door; stepped round-arched hood mould over central 1st floor window. Chamfered reveals to long and short margins to openings; long and short quoins.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: roll-moulded architraved doorpiece with armorial panel below hoodmould at ground in advanced bay to centre; window at 1st floor; point-arched gablehead window above; decorative octagonal gablehead stack. Tripartite at ground with bipartite at 1st floor above in bays flanking.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay advanced gabled wall with single storey 3-bay block to left. 2-bay block: stair window to centre; gablehead window above. Window at each floor in bay to left. 3-bay block: blocked window to centre. Window in bay to left. Modern uPVC door in bay to right.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at each floor in each bay with small gablehead window and gablehead stack in 2-bay block to right. Bipartite at ground with single window at 1st floor in recessed bay to outer left.

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: small window set to right at each floor in gabled bay to left; gablehead stack above. pitched projection with lean-to addition to E from blank wall to recessed bay to right.

Predominantly 6-pane timber sash and case windows with fixed stair window at rear. Grey slate; stone ridge; stone skews; harled coped gablehead stacks; decorative octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: random rubble walls with rubble cope enclosing garden sloping down to E; coped square-plan rubble gatepiers sited to S with replacement wrought-iron gates.

Statement of Special Interest

Formerly the manse to the North Kirk, now Stromness Town Hall on Church Street, which was originally built in 1844, then completely rebuilt in 1892, (see separate list description).

References

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Appears on 1st edition OS map (1882).

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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