24 Main Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. 2 related planning applications.
24 Main Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- iron-soffit-harvest
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Address
- 24 Main Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1BU
- OS grid reference
- HY 447 104
- Coordinates
- 58.97789, -2.96233
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24 Main Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century building that has been modified from an earlier structure, possibly dating back to 167?. It consists of a pair of two-storey, two-bay houses that form a small terrace, featuring a crow-stepped gable end facing the street, and is harled.
The north gabled elevation has two bays, with a window on the first floor in the left bay and a window on each floor in the right bay, topped by a gablehead stack. The east entrance elevation has three bays (five bays at ground level). The house on the left (south) has a part-glazed timber panelled door with a letterbox fanlight in the right bay at ground level, a window above it on the first floor, and a window in the left bay at ground level. The house on the right (north) has a window in each floor of the centre bay, a timber-panelled door with a letterbox fanlight in the left bay at ground level, and a window above it on the first floor, along with a window in the right bay at ground level.
The north elevation features modern timber hopper windows, while the east elevation has two- and four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes a stone slate easing course, cavetto moulded skewputts (one inscribed 'MH' with a date), a harled, coped vestigial gablehead stack to the north, cast-iron downpipes, and uPVC gutters. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
24 Main Street, Kirkwall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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