Swanson House, Front Road, St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

Swanson House, Front Road, St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay

WRENN ID
turning-niche-grove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1971
Type
House
Address
Swanson House, Front Road, St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay, KW17 2SL
OS grid reference
ND 447 935
Coordinates
58.82578, -2.95801
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Swanson House, located on Front Road in St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay, is a traditional building from the later 18th century. It stands at 2 and a half storeys high and is constructed of rubble. The building features a corbie-stepped gable facing the road and is roofed with Caithness slates.

Local climate

Swanson House, Front Road, St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay 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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