42 Alfred Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. Town house.
42 Alfred Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- kindled-rafter-bistre
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 42 Alfred Street, Stromness, KW16 3DF
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 085
- Coordinates
- 58.95798, -3.30127
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
42 Alfred Street in Stromness is a mid to late 19th century town house with later alterations. It is a two-storey and attic building with a symmetrical three-bay rectangular plan, featuring a gable end facing the street. The house is built on slightly rising ground to the south and is harled with plain painted cement margins around the openings.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a modern timber panelled door located in the central bay at ground level, with a window above it on the first floor. Each of the flanking bays also has a window on both floors.
The west (street) elevation displays a two-bay gabled wall, with windows set low in each bay at ground level. There is a window on the first floor, along with a window in the gable shoulder above in the right bay. A gablehead stack is present above.
On the east elevation, there is a window in each floor of the right bay, while the left bay is adjacent to Number 40 Alfred Street. The windows are modern tilt opening four-pane timber types. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped harled stacks at the gableheads with plain cans, along with uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1997.
Local climate
42 Alfred Street, Stromness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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