Smithy, 11 Balfour Village, Shapinsay is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. House. 3 related planning applications.
Smithy, 11 Balfour Village, Shapinsay
- WRENN ID
- rusted-clay-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Smithy, 11 Balfour Village, Shapinsay, KW17 2DX
- OS grid reference
- HY 479 165
- Coordinates
- 59.03239, -2.9093
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Smithy at 11 Balfour Village in Shapinsay dates from around 1850 and is a two-storey, L-plan building constructed from regularly coursed rubble. The street-facing elevation features three bays, with the right bay being the gable end of the rear block that has a forestair leading to the upper entrance. The two left bays have bipartite windows at the ground level and raised wall head gables for the upper windows. The return elevation has no windows but includes a door in a single-storey lean-to addition. The crow-stepped gable end facing the street has an apex stack and is topped with a graded slate roof.
Local climate
Smithy, 11 Balfour Village, Shapinsay 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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