Heatherview, Westray is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2001. House.
Heatherview, Westray
- WRENN ID
- third-loft-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2001
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- HY 433 482
- Coordinates
- 59.31644, -2.99652
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Heatherview is a late 18th century, two-storey house with a rectangular plan. It features a crow-stepped gable on the west side and a single-storey addition on the east, with the gable altered and partially covered with concrete coping. The structure is built of coursed rubble and is limewashed at the west end.
On the south elevation, there is a near-central entrance with a plain timber door. To the left, there is a small inserted window, and an enlarged window with a cement architrave to the outer left. There are two windows to the right, along with four windows on the first floor.
The north elevation has an entrance to the left of centre with a boarded timber door. There is a window to the right and a blocked former window to the outer right. Two windows are located to the left of centre on the first floor.
The west elevation features two windows on the first floor of the gable end.
On the east elevation, the gable end of the single-storey addition projects to the left of centre, with an entrance to the left. There is a window set back to the right of the gable end of the main block, a window to the left on the first floor, and a former window to the right that is blocked.
The house has a mixture of four-light timber sash and case windows, two and four-light top-hung casements, and four and six-light fixed frame windows, with timber boards on those facing west. The roof is made of stone slate, while the single-storey addition has stone flags. There are gablehead stacks at both ends (east and west) and a ridge stack at the centre, all featuring band courses, although many cans are missing, with some round cans remaining on the gablehead stack to the east.
Local climate
Heatherview, Westray 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 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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