12 High Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Town house.
12 High Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- secret-gateway-primrose
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- 12 High Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1AZ
- OS grid reference
- HY 445 104
- Coordinates
- 58.97725, -2.96677
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 High Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century terraced town house that has undergone some later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a symmetrical rectangular plan and crow-stepped gables, situated on rising ground to the west. The exterior is cement-rendered and lined.
On the north elevation, which is the principal front, there is a modern boarded door with a letterbox fanlight located in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors. The windows are 4-pane timber sash and case types, while the attic features fixed, timber-framed windows. The north pitch of the roof has three evenly spaced rooflights. The roof itself is covered with grey slate and has a stone ridge. There are corniced gablehead stacks made of cement-rendered and lined material on both the east and west sides, and the building has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
12 High 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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