63, 65 Albert Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.

63, 65 Albert Street, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
weathered-transept-dock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 1999
Type
Tenement
Address
63, 65 Albert Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1HQ
OS grid reference
HY 449 109
Coordinates
58.98247, -2.95987
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

63 and 65 Albert Street in Kirkwall is a two-storey and attic, three-bay tenement building dating from the earlier to mid-19th century, with possible remodeling in the later 19th century and later alterations. It is part of a terrace and features a harled exterior with plain cement margins around the windows and polished pink granite margins at the ground level, which also serves as a continuous base course. The building has strip quoins.

On the principal elevation, there is a modern shop window with a glazed door on the left, spanning the central and right bays at ground level. To the left, there is a deep-set common stair entrance. The first floor has regular fenestration, with two evenly spaced dormer windows that break the eaves above.

The north side elevation has a single-storey building (Number 61) at ground level, with a small attic window above it, set to the left, and a gablehead stack. The ground level features a modern shop window, while the upper floor has two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring a stone ridge and stone skews, along with a harled, corniced multi-flue gablehead stack to the north and a common harled stack to the south. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior consists of a modern shop at ground level, with the upper floors remaining unseen, last noted as being updated in 1998.

Local climate

63, 65 Albert 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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