Herring-Curing Station, Mirkady Point is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 May 1999. Fishing station.

Herring-Curing Station, Mirkady Point

WRENN ID
secret-corridor-dust
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 May 1999
Type
Fishing station
OS grid reference
HY 537 068
Coordinates
58.94629, -2.80552
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Herring-Curing Station at Mirkady Point is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan fishing station. It features a lean-to shed at the rear, which is now roofless, and a forestair on the west gable. The building is constructed of random rubble.

On the south elevation, which is the principal front, there is a boarded door at ground level in the central bay, with a blocked window above it on the first floor. To the left, there is a window at ground level and a blocked window above on the first floor. The right bay has a blocked window at each floor.

The north elevation, which is the rear, has a single-storey, four-bay former shed wall. There are former windows in each of the left bays and a former doorway in the outer right bay. Inside, there is a bottle-shaped fireplace on the west wall, with remnants of a rubble stack above. The rear elevation of the fishing station has a centered blocked window at each floor and small ventilation holes along the entire elevation beneath the eaves.

The west side elevation features a rubble screen wall leading to the forestair, with a boarded door set to the right of the gable at the first floor and a gablehead stack above. The outer left side has a blank former shed wall. On the east side elevation, there is a blocked window at the first floor to the right of the gable, with a gablehead stack above and a former shed wall to the outer right.

The building retains a single remaining fixed timber-framed window, while the others are blocked. It has a grey slate roof with coped skews and rubble, corniced stacks. Inside, there are exposed tiebeams and boards for the floor division, and it is currently used as a hay store.

Local climate

Herring-Curing Station, Mirkady Point 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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