Grindely House is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. House.
Grindely House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-paling-solstice
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1977
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- HY 328 043
- Coordinates
- 58.92096, -3.16868
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Grindely House is a building dating from around 1910, designed in a Scottish style. It has two storeys and a garret, with a harled exterior. The roof is slated and features gabled dormers, along with corbie-stepped detailing.
Local climate
Grindely House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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