1 Dundas Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. House.

1 Dundas Street, Stromness

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1998
Type
House
OS grid reference
HY 253 089
Coordinates
58.96097, -3.30001
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 Dundas Street in Stromness is an earlier to mid 19th century, two-storey, single bay (three-bay at ground) house that features an asymmetrical crowstepped gable and is part of a terrace. The house has a chamfered northeast angle at the ground level and adjoins a single bay crowstepped-gabled house to the south. The ground floor is cement-rendered while the first floor is harled, with a band course separating the two levels.

On the east (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set, part-glazed timber panelled door with a three-light fanlight located in the bay to the left of centre. A large window is situated in the centre bay at ground level, with a corresponding window above it on the first floor. Another large window is found in the bay to the right at ground level.

The north (side) elevation features a crowstepped gabled wall with a window to the left on the first floor and another window in the attic above. There is a multi-flue gablehead stack. The ground floor has large former shop windows, while the first floor is fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with stone slates, has a stone ridge, coped crowsteps, and a corniced stack to the north, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1997.

Local climate

1 Dundas Street, Stromness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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