30 Wellington Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
30 Wellington Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- riven-eave-ochre
- 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
- 30 Wellington Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1AY
- OS grid reference
- HY 445 104
- Coordinates
- 58.97754, -2.96542
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
30 Wellington Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century end-of-terrace house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a symmetrical rectangular plan and crowstepped gables, along with a full-height lean-to addition at the rear. The exterior is harled.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set part-glazed door located in the central bay, with a window in each bay on both floors flanking the door. The east (side) elevation has two bays, with a window in the ground floor of the left bay and a blank wall leading to the lean-to on the outer left. An attic window is situated to the right of the gable, which also has a gablehead stack above.
The windows throughout the building include two- and four-pane timber sash and case styles, as well as a timber-framed attic window with a top-hung upper light. There are three evenly spaced rooflights on the north pitch. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring a stone ridge, stone skews, and harled corniced gablehead stacks on both the east and west sides. The property has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
30 Wellington 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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