8 St Olaf's Wynd, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House.
8 St Olaf's Wynd, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- frozen-footing-swift
- 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
- 8 St Olaf's Wynd, Kirkwall, KW15 1JB
- OS grid reference
- HY 450 111
- Coordinates
- 58.98401, -2.95727
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 St Olaf's Wynd in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house that has undergone later alterations. This two-storey, three-bay house features a rectangular plan and a symmetrical design with crowstepped gables, and it is part of a terraced pair. The exterior is harled with long and short margins around the openings.
On the south elevation, there is a modern uPVC door with a two-pane letterbox fanlight located in the central bay at ground level, with a window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors. The windows are four-pane timber sash and case. The roof is made of corrugated asbestos with a stone ridge, and there are harled, corniced gablehead stacks on the west side, along with a similar mutual stack. Thack stanes and uPVC rainwater goods are also present.
The interior was not seen during the last assessment in 1998.
Local climate
8 St Olaf's Wynd, Kirkwall 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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