32 Broad Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House.
32 Broad Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- sunken-footing-shade
- 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
- House
- Address
- 32 Broad Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DH
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 108
- Coordinates
- 58.98115, -2.96063
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
32 Broad Street in Kirkwall is a house built around 1825. It is a two-storey building with an attic and has a symmetrical, rectangular plan with three bays. The house is adjacent to Number 3 Palace Road at the rear and features a central tympany gable with gabletted dormers on either side that break the eaves. The exterior is harled, with concrete cills.
On the north elevation, which is the principal facade, the doorway has been infilled to create a window in the central bay at ground level, with a window above it on each floor. There is a gablehead stack on the tympany gable, and each of the flanking bays also has a window on each floor.
The east side elevation has two bays, with a window on each floor in the right bay. There is a modern part-glazed door at ground level in the left bay, along with a window on the first floor and a gablehead stack above.
The west side elevation also has two bays, with a window on each floor in both bays and a gablehead stack above.
The house features a variety of glazing patterns, including 12-pane and 9-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof has been replaced with traditional graded stone tiles, and there are harled, corniced stacks along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
32 Broad 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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