53-55 Alfred Street, Stromness is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Townhouse. 1 related planning application.
53-55 Alfred Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- gentle-outpost-wax
- 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
- Townhouse
- Address
- 53-55 Alfred Street, Stromness, KW16 3DF
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 086
- Coordinates
- 58.9583, -3.30118
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
53-55 Alfred Street in Stromness is a 19th-century town house with later alterations. It is a three-storey, three-bay building with a symmetrical rectangular plan and a rectangular-plan wing at the rear. The exterior is harled with cement-painted margins around the openings.
On the east (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set boarded door at the ground level in the central bay, with a window above it on each floor. Each flanking bay also has a window on each floor.
The south (side) elevation features a gable wall with a single window set to the right at the first floor, and a gablehead stack above it.
The windows are timber sash and case, with 9 and 12 panes (4 panes on the side). The roof is covered with old Orkney grey slate, featuring a stone ridge, stone skews, and tall gablehead stacks that are shouldered to the north. There is a decorative octagonal can on the south side and fluted rectangular cans on the north side. The rainwater goods are made of uPVC.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Additionally, there is a garden wall made of random rubble with a rubble cope extending south from the south elevation. It includes two-leaf boarded gates set to the right, abutting the south elevation.
Local climate
53-55 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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