2 Balfour Village, Shapinsay is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. House.

2 Balfour Village, Shapinsay

WRENN ID
weathered-minaret-saffron
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 December 1977
Type
House
OS grid reference
HY 478 164
Coordinates
59.03186, -2.90959
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Balfour Village in Shapinsay is a mid-19th century building that stands two storeys tall, with the first floor raised into the roof space. The structure features two bays and is constructed from roughly coursed rubble. There is a door located on the right side and one window on the ground floor, along with a central window on the first floor, which is set beneath a raised wallhead gable. The building is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

2 Balfour Village, Shapinsay 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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