Westend, Whaness, Hoy is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 1999. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Westend, Whaness, Hoy
- WRENN ID
- vast-slate-elder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1999
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- HY 250 028
- Coordinates
- 58.906, -3.30195
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Westend is a cottage built in the late 19th century, with later alterations. It is a single-storey, three-bay structure with a symmetrical rectangular plan, located to the east of a former croft complex that is now derelict. The exterior is constructed of harl-pointed random rubble.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set boarded door in the central bay, with a small window in each of the flanking bays. The south (rear) elevation features a window set to the outer left and right. Both the east and west gabled elevations are blank, with gablehead stacks above.
The cottage has 2-over-single-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is traditionally covered with graded stone tiles, featuring a stone ridge, stone skews, and corniced rubble gablehead stacks. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
Westend, Whaness, Hoy 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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- 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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