Warehouse And Walls, The Strynd, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971.
Warehouse And Walls, The Strynd, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- other-basalt-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- OS grid reference
- HY 450 108
- Coordinates
- 58.98166, -2.95809
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7 The Strynd in Kirkwall is a building with medieval origins. It features high, drystone, slightly battered rubble walls that line a Caithness flagstoned passage connecting Broad Street with King Street. There are deep-set boarded doors at each end of the passage. The building includes a later addition of a single-storey integrated storehouse at the eastern end of the south wall, which has a gable end and is two bays wide. The storehouse is constructed of random rubble and has 3-over-5-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is traditionally covered with graded stone slates, and there are rubble corniced gablehead stacks on the northern block. The building also has uPVC rainwater goods.
Local climate
Warehouse And Walls, The Strynd, 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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