Eventide Club, 18 Victoria Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. 2 related planning applications.

Eventide Club, 18 Victoria Street, Stromness

WRENN ID
idle-lantern-wind
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1998
OS grid reference
HY 254 091
Coordinates
58.96317, -3.2978
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Registrar's Office on 20 Victoria Street in Stromness is an early 20th-century single-storey building designed as a social club. It has a rectangular plan with five bays and features a slightly advanced gabled bay at the center. The exterior is painted cement-rendered and lined, with moulded architraves around the openings and corbelled mouldings beneath the skews at the angles.

On the north elevation, there is a window in the central bay, a clock on the gable, and a truncated finial at the gablehead above. Each bay on either side of the center has a boarded door with stone steps leading up to it, and there is a window in each outer bay to the left and right.

The east elevation features a blank gabled wall with a gablehead stack above. The west elevation has a single bay gabled wall with a window set to the left and a gablehead stack above.

The windows are timber-framed with top-hung upper lights. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has a decorative pierced red clay ridge. The gablehead stacks are coped and cement-rendered, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not fully seen in 1997.

Local climate

Eventide Club, 18 Victoria Street, Stromness 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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