25 St Catherine's Place, 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.

25 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
stony-nave-yew
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
25 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall, KW15 1HX
OS grid reference
HY 451 111
Coordinates
58.98421, -2.9556
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

25 St Catherine's Place in Kirkwall is a pair of two-storey, three-bay houses built around 1805, with later alterations. The houses have a rectangular plan and feature crowstepped gables, with the gabled end facing the street and an eastward extension that includes a single-storey lean-to addition. The exterior is harled.

On the north elevation, Number 25 has a deep-set part-glazed door located in the central bay, with a window on each floor in the flanking bays. Number 26 also has a deep-set door in the central bay, with windows on each floor in the adjacent bays and an additional window in the lean-to addition on the outer left. The west elevation, facing St Catherine's Place, has a window in the right bay at ground level and another window in the left bay at the first floor, with a gablehead above.

Number 25 features four-pane timber sash and case windows, while Number 26 has timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. The roofs are traditionally covered with graded stone slates, featuring stone ridges, harled corniced gableheads, and ridge stacks, along with uPVC rainwater goods.

The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1998. There is also a small single-storey rubble lean-to shed located to the east, which has boarded doors and a traditional graded stone slated roof.

Local climate

25 St Catherine's Place, 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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