Outbuilding, Banks is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 1999.
Outbuilding, Banks
- WRENN ID
- dusk-jade-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1999
- OS grid reference
- HY 517 001
- Coordinates
- 58.88561, -2.8393
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Banks is an earlier to mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan house that is nearly symmetrical, featuring a lean-to projection at the rear that spans the bays on the right. The exterior is harled, with first-floor windows positioned close to the eaves.
On the south (principal) elevation, there is a boarded door offset to the left of centre at ground level, with a centrally located window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors flanking the door.
The north (rear) elevation includes a small window, offset to the left of centre, in the lean-to projection that spans the bays to the right. There is a boarded door on the left return and a centrally located window with another window to the right on the first floor above. A later small lean-to with a corrugated-iron roof is present on the outer left.
On the east (side) elevation, there is a window at each floor, offset to the right of centre, with a gablehead stack above. The windows are predominantly four-pane timber sash and case, with many boarded. The roof is tiled with graded stone tone tiles, featuring a stone ridge, harled and coped gablehead stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Additionally, there is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan outbuilding made of squared rubble located to the rear (north) of the main house. The south (main) elevation has a timber door in the centre bay and a boarded window in each of the flanking bays. There are two-leaf sliding doors on the east gable, with a corrugated-iron roof and concrete skews.
Local climate
Outbuilding, Banks sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 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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