10 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971.

10 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
silver-moat-mint
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1971
OS grid reference
HY 451 112
Coordinates
58.9847, -2.95561
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

11 St Catherine's Place in Kirkwall is a row of four houses built around 1805, with later alterations and additions. These two-storey, three-bay houses have a rectangular plan and feature crowstepped gables facing the street, with harled exteriors. The first-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves, except for Number 9, which breaks the eaves.

On the principal (south) elevation, Number 12, located at the extreme west, has a modern, part-glazed timber door leading to a single-storey gabled porch with a spike finial in the central bay. There is a window in the right return and another window at the first floor above. Each bay flanking this house has enlarged windows on both floors. Number 11 features a deep-set, part-glazed timber panelled door at ground level in the central bay, with a small, non-aligned window above. The flanking bays have enlarged windows at ground level and standard windows at the first floor. Number 10 has a deep-set modern timber door in the central bay, with windows at each floor in the flanking bays. Number 9, at the extreme east, has a deep-set, modern boarded door at ground level in the central bay, with windows at each floor in the flanking bays.

The rear (north) elevation is irregularly fenestrated. Number 12 has a single bay with a centered window on each floor. Number 11 has a window in the central bay on each floor, with additional windows in the left bay and one at ground level in the right bay. Number 10 has a window in the central bay on each floor and ground-level windows in the flanking bays. Number 9 has a small window in the central bay on each floor, with ground-level windows in the flanking bays.

The houses exhibit a variety of glazing patterns, including timber- and aluminium-framed windows with top-hung upper lights, some timber sash and case windows, and rooflights on the north pitches. The roofs are covered with grey slate, some of which have been replaced, and feature stone ridges, stone skews at the west end, and harled, corniced common ridge and gablehead stacks. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron and uPVC.

The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1998.

Local climate

10 St Catherine's Place, 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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