Crook is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Crook
- WRENN ID
- former-rubblework-moss
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Crook, KW17 2HA
- OS grid reference
- HY 407 222
- Coordinates
- 59.08323, -3.03614
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Crook is an 18th-century traditional building constructed from random rubble and covered with Caithness slates. It features skews.
Local climate
Crook 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 — 2 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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