7 The Strynd, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. Tea rooms, former house.
7 The Strynd, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- eternal-bailey-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1999
- Type
- Tea rooms, former house
- OS grid reference
- HY 449 109
- Coordinates
- 58.98213, -2.95935
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7 The Strynd in Kirkwall is an 18th-century building that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, two-bay rectangular former house, which is adjacent to a taller, two-storey, two-bay rectangular-plan crowstepped-gabled former house that has been converted into tea rooms. The exterior is made of random rubble with deep-set openings.
On the north elevation facing The Strynd, the left two-bay section features a centrally located modern part-glazed door at ground level, with a window on each floor in the bay to the left and a window on the first floor set wide to the right. The right two-bay section has a blocked doorway at ground level in the bay to the right and a window on the first floor. There is also a blocked window at ground level in the bay to the left, with a window on the first floor.
The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The left-hand block has modern concrete tiles, while the right-hand block features traditional graded stone tiles. There is a tall rubble gablehead stack to the east and an extended harled, coped stack in the center. The building predominantly has cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior has been converted into a tea room on the ground floor, with the upper floors remaining unseen.
Local climate
7 The Strynd, 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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