12 Clay Loan, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Cottage.
12 Clay Loan, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- leaning-trefoil-merlin
- 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
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 105
- Coordinates
- 58.97864, -2.96126
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 Clay Loan in Kirkwall is an 18th-century cottage with later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan structure that is symmetrical and built on ground that rises to the west. It is adjacent to a similar cottage to the east, sharing a common crowstepped gable, and features a lean-to addition on the right side.
The south elevation, which is the principal front, has a deep-set modern part-glazed door located in the central bay, with a window on each floor in each bay flanking it. The west side elevation includes a lean-to projection that spans the ground bays, a window set to the left on the first floor, and a gablehead stack above.
The cottage has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a central rooflight on the south pitch. The roof is covered with graded traditional Caithness stone, featuring a stone ridge and harled, coped stacks, with a common stack to the east. The rainwater goods are made of uPVC. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
12 Clay Loan, 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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