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Latitude: 59.0252 / 59°1'30"N
Longitude: -3.1726 / 3°10'21"W
OS Eastings: 332782
OS Northings: 1015936
OS Grid: HY327159
Mapcode National: GBR L4JW.9DN
Mapcode Global: WH69Q.7FH2
Entry Name: Boardhouse,mound 225m SSE of,Bimbister
Scheduled Date: 25 March 1940
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1341
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: mound (ritual or funerary)
Location: Birsay and Harray
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: West Mainland
Traditional County: Orkney
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 6-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors, 1st and 2nd floors; cill course at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor, with smaller square windows. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pair of 9-panel timber doors in central bays, with rectangular fanlights, radial at No 28, plate glass at No 30. Regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above, and basement.
E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (14-26 Northumberland Street).
W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (19 and 21 Dundas Street).
12-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble gablehead stack with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railing with balusters and finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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