Elrose, St Mary's is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 1999. Cottage.
Elrose, St Mary's
- WRENN ID
- open-storey-mint
- 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 471 013
- Coordinates
- 58.89585, -2.91816
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Elrose is a single-storey, three-bay symmetrical cottage built in the later 19th century. The cottage has a harled exterior and features concrete cills.
On the east elevation, the central bay contains a boarded door with a letterbox fanlight above it, also boarded. There is a window in each of the flanking bays. The south elevation has a window set to the outer right of the gabled elevation, with a gablehead stack positioned above.
The cottage has four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with Welsh purple slate and has a stone ridge, with two evenly spaced rooflights on the east pitch. The skews are made of concrete, and there are harled corniced gablehead stacks on both the north and south sides.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997. The boundary walls consist of low harled rubble with a concrete coping and feature centered, harled square-plan piers.
Local climate
Elrose, St Mary's sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 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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