Burness House is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House.
Burness House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-gateway-rush
- 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
- OS grid reference
- HY 387 158
- Coordinates
- 59.02521, -3.06845
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Burness House is a traditional building from the 18th century, featuring two and a half storeys. The exterior is harled, and it has a flagged roof with corbie steps. The house includes advanced wings that project outward, and the kitchen wing at the rear is a remnant of an earlier house, complete with an ingle-nook. There are also out-buildings located to the south and east of the main structure.
Local climate
Burness House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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 98% 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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