39 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Shop/house. 1 related planning application.
39 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- wild-tower-indigo
- 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
- Shop/house
- Address
- 39 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 107
- Coordinates
- 58.98014, -2.9618
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
39 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century house that has been altered over time. It is a two-storey building with an attic and has a rectangular plan with crow-stepped gables. The ground floor has been converted into a shop. The exterior features cement rendering and lining on the ground floor, while the upper part and the south side are harled. The windows have cement margins and strip quoins.
On the east (principal) elevation, there are three evenly spaced windows at ground level, with a window in each bay on the floors above, and a gablehead stack. The south (side) elevation has deep-set, irregular openings at ground level and four regularly spaced windows on the first floor. The west (rear) elevation includes a single-storey projection from the left of the centre bay, an attic window above the main block, and a window in each floor of the right bay.
The building features 2-, 4-, and 12-pane timber sash and case windows, large timber-framed shop windows on the east at ground level, and small-pane timber-framed attic windows on the east. There are also rooflights on the south pitch. The roof is covered with grey slate and has harled corniced gablehead stacks, along with uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
39 Victoria 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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