60 Victoria Street, 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.
60 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- haunted-loggia-dock
- 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
- 60 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 106
- Coordinates
- 58.97963, -2.96139
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
60 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century, two-storey house that has been converted into a shop. It has a rectangular plan with a single bay and features a crowstepped gable end. The northwest angle is stop-chamfered, and there is a tall gablehead stack. The exterior is harled, and modern concrete window cills have been added.
On the principal (west) elevation, there is a deep-set, part-glazed modern door located at the ground level in the chamfered angle to the outer left. There is a window offset to the right of the centre on each floor, with the gablehead stack positioned above.
The side (south) elevation has a window at each floor in the bay to the outer left. The windows are four-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, along with a tall, harled, corniced stack on the west side. The property has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior has been converted to a shop at the ground level, with the upper floors remaining unseen since 1998.
Local climate
60 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
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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