33 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. House. 2 related planning applications.

33 Victoria Street, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
ancient-cupola-bittern
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
Address
33 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
OS grid reference
HY 448 107
Coordinates
58.98025, -2.9616
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

33 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and a single-storey section, featuring a crow-stepped gable and a rectangular plan. The house has a stop-chamfered angle at the southeast corner and is linked to a single-storey shop at Number 31, which has a swept gable and three finials, although the shop itself is not listed. The ground floor is cement-rendered and lined, while the upper part is harled, with cement margins around the openings. There is a corniced fascia between the ground and first floors, along with an eaves course.

On the east gable elevation, there is a widened window offset to the right of centre at ground level, with a window above in the bay to the right. The gable features a stack. The south side elevation has a window at the stop-chamfered angle on the ground floor and three evenly spaced windows on the first floor. The north side elevation includes a single-storey, flat-roofed link to Number 35.

The building has modern two-pane windows and large uPVC shop windows. The roof is covered with modern grey slate and features a stone ridge, with a harled, coped gablehead stack on the east side and uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.

Local climate

33 Victoria 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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