Haybrake Granary, Lyness, Walls, Hoy is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 2002. Granary. 1 related planning application.

Haybrake Granary, Lyness, Walls, Hoy

WRENN ID
fallow-lancet-wind
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 January 2002
Type
Granary
Address
Haybrake Granary, Lyness, Walls, Hoy, KW16 3NS
OS grid reference
ND 304 944
Coordinates
58.83206, -3.20596
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Haybrake Granary in Lyness, Walls, Hoy, is a mid to late 19th century, two-storey, six-bay cartshed and granary. The building features exposed flagstone walls and has six segmental arched cart openings on the main elevation.

On the northern (principal) elevation, which was originally symmetrical, there are six ground floor cart openings supported by stone piers. The third and fourth openings have been blocked and converted into doorways, while the fifth opening is partially blocked with a doorway. To the right, there is a later lean-to shed, and to the left, the roofless remains of a byre, both of which are excluded from the listing. Above each pier, there is a single granary opening that has now been converted into windows.

The eastern elevation shows raggles from a former pitched building. The southern elevation has a door to the left and raggles from a former single-storey outbuilding, with a window to the right. There are five granary openings on the first floor, which have been converted into windows, and a blocked opening on the far left.

On the western elevation, there is a first-floor window to the right and a later lean-to on the ground floor. The building features timber boarded doors, including two stable doors, and has replacement windows with two panes and four panes. The roof is pitched and covered with stone slates, featuring rooflights and a coped ridge stack that is off-centre to the east. The gable ends have skews.

The interior was not seen in 2000.

Local climate

Haybrake Granary, Lyness, Walls, Hoy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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