51 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
51 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- standing-footing-snow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 51 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 106
- Coordinates
- 58.97985, -2.96162
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
51 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular building with a symmetrical design and a stop-chamfered southeast angle. The ground floor is painted cement-rendered and lined, while the upper part is harled. The ground floor features aproned cills.
On the east (principal) elevation, there are three widened windows evenly spaced at the ground level, with a cast inscription above the central window that reads 'SOL DEO GLORIA'. To the outer right, there is a modern part-glazed door located in the stop-chamfered angle. The first floor also has three evenly spaced windows, and just below the eaves of the central window, there is a triangular thistle motif.
The first-floor windows are two-pane timber sash and case style, while the ground floor has large shop windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are stone skews and uPVC rainwater goods. The interior has been converted into a shop on the ground floor, with the upper floor remaining unseen.
Local climate
51 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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