Walled Garden To S, Alquist, 15 Graham Place, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998.

Walled Garden To S, Alquist, 15 Graham Place, Stromness

WRENN ID
dreaming-keep-ash
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1998
OS grid reference
HY 252 089
Coordinates
58.96146, -3.301
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Alquist is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay house located at 15 Graham Place in Stromness, with later alterations and additions. The house has been re-slated in 1997 and features a rectangular plan with a symmetrical design. There is a flat-roofed single-storey addition set back to the right, and the building is situated on ground that slopes down to the east. It is surrounded by a walled garden to the east and south.

The principal elevation faces south and has a bracketed cornice above a modern glazed architraved door located in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors, and there is an additional window in the right-hand addition.

The west side elevation features a single bay with a gabled wall, which includes a window on the first floor to the left and a gablehead stack above.

The windows are two-pane timber sash and case, except for the modern window in the addition. The roof is covered with modern asbestos felt, has a concrete ridge, rooflights on the south pitch, and concrete skews. The gablehead stacks are harled and coped, with the eastern stack extended. The property also has uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen during the 1997 assessment. The walled gardens include a rubble wall enclosing a small garden with a rubble lean-to shed at the southeast corner, as well as a larger rectangular garden enclosed by a rubble wall to the east.

Local climate

Walled Garden To S, Alquist, 15 Graham Place, 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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