11 School Place, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. House.

11 School Place, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
waning-turret-jackdaw
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 1999
Type
House
OS grid reference
HY 450 108
Coordinates
58.98091, -2.95681
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

11 School Place in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house that has undergone some later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical house, with a lower four-bay asymmetrical block to the left, forming part of a small terrace on the west side of School Place, built on rising ground to the south. The exterior is harled, and the first-floor windows are set close under the eaves.

On the east (principal) elevation, the three-bay symmetrical block features a deep-set modern timber-panelled door at ground level in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. There is a window in each floor of the two flanking bays. The four-bay asymmetrical block has windows in the two central bays at ground level, with a window in the outer right bay on each floor, and a deep-set door in the outer left bay.

The north (side) elevation adjoins Number 7. The house has two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with a stone ridge, harled gablehead stacks with cornices, and predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

11 School Place, 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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