6 High Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Terraced house.
6 High Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- riven-foundation-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- Terraced house
- OS grid reference
- HY 445 104
- Coordinates
- 58.97736, -2.96634
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 High Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century terraced house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a nearly symmetrical rectangular plan, built on rising ground to the west. The exterior is harled, with cement block cills and smaller windows on the first floor.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set, part-glazed modern timber door located in the central bay at ground level, with a window above it on the first floor. Each flanking bay has a window on both floors. To the outer right, there is a boarded door at ground level within a screen wall.
The house features replacement timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. The roof is covered with replacement grey slate, has a stone ridge, and includes a common harled stack on the east side and a harled, coped gablehead stack on the west side. The property also has uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
6 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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