108A Victoria Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. House. 2 related planning applications.

108A Victoria Street, Stromness

WRENN ID
noble-cobalt-bracken
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
House
Address
108A Victoria Street, Stromness, KW16 3BU
OS grid reference
HY 253 090
Coordinates
58.96181, -3.299
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

108A Victoria Street in Stromness is an earlier 19th century house that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey, five-bay, rectangular-plan asymmetrical house featuring a single-storey pitched addition and a slipway to the east. The exterior is made of pointed, roughly coursed rubble.

On the south elevation, which is the principal elevation, there is a deep-set timber panelled door at ground level located in the bay to the left of centre, with a window above it on the first floor. There is another window on the first floor in the outer left bay, and a window at ground level in the central bay. Additionally, there is a window at each floor in the bay to the right of centre, and a window at ground level in the outer right bay.

The east elevation, facing the sea, features a timber-framed single-storey addition offset to the right at ground level, a central enlarged window on the first floor, and a gablehead stack above. The first-floor windows are 8-pane timber sash and case, while the ground floor has small pane timber windows with top-hung upper lights. The roof is covered with purple Welsh slate, has a stone ridge, concrete skews, and rubble corniced gablehead stacks on both the east and west sides. The property also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The quay and slipway feature Caithness flagstones leading to a small rectangular-plan quay, with a rubble slipway extending from the northeast angle.

Local climate

108A Victoria Street, 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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