Walled Garden, 6 Khyber Pass, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. Cottage.
Walled Garden, 6 Khyber Pass, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- low-arch-lichen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 089
- Coordinates
- 58.96103, -3.30064
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at 6 Khyber Pass in Stromness is a late 18th-century cottage that has undergone later alterations. It is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular building that is nearly symmetrical, constructed on rising ground to the west and finished with harling. There is a lean-to square-plan outbuilding that hugs the northwest corner of the cottage.
On the south elevation, which is the principal front, there is a modern part-glazed boarded door located in the central bay, with a window in each of the flanking bays. The east side elevation features a single bay gabled wall with a window positioned to the left and a gablehead stack above. The west side elevation also has a single bay gabled wall, with a single bay outbuilding attached to the outer left. A window is set to the right, with a gablehead stack above it.
The cottage has four-pane timber sash and case windows and a Caithness slate roof, which has heavily tarred joints. The roof features concrete skews, harled corniced gablehead stacks on the east and west, thackstanes, and uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997. The outbuilding is a square-plan rubble shed with a boarded door on the west elevation and a corniced rubble stack at the northeast angle, adjacent to the northwest corner of the main building. It also has a heavily tarred Caithness slate roof.
To the north, there are rubble walls that enclose a rectangular garden shared with 41 Graham Place.
Local climate
Walled Garden, 6 Khyber Pass, 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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