8 North End Road, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. Cottage.
8 North End Road, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- open-render-violet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- HY 255 095
- Coordinates
- 58.96626, -3.29558
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 North End Road in Stromness is a cottage that likely dates back to the early 19th century, with some later alterations and additions. It is a single-storey building, though it rises to two storeys at the rear, featuring a symmetrical T-plan design and built on sloping ground that falls to the east. The exterior is finished with modern dry-dash render.
On the west (principal) elevation, there is a part-glazed timber panelled door located in the central bay, with a window on either side. The east (rear) elevation includes a window on each floor of a two-storey lean-to addition in the center, and a window at the first floor in the left return. There is also a modern small-pane door at ground level in the left bay, with a window above it on the first floor.
The north and south (side) elevations are blank, featuring wide gablehead stacks. The cottage has modern timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights, a roof covered with modern asbestos tiles, a stone ridge, harled corniced gablehead stacks, replacement concrete skews, and uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.
Local climate
8 North End Road, Stromness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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