34 Wellington Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House.
34 Wellington Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- broken-paling-pigeon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- HY 445 104
- Coordinates
- 58.97748, -2.96577
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
34 Wellington Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century end-of-terrace house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and has a rectangular plan, featuring three bays on the upper floors and four bays at ground level. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to. The exterior is harled.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set, timber-panelled door located in the bay to the right of the centre. Each floor has a window in the bay to the outer right, as well as in the bays to the left of centre and the outer left.
The west side elevation includes a small attic window to the right of the gable, with a gablehead stack above. The windows are 4-pane timber sash and case, and there is a rooflight on the north pitch. The roof is covered with modern grey slate and features a stone ridge, stone skews, and a harled, corniced gablehead stack on the west side, along with a similar common stack on the east side. The building predominantly uses uPVC for its rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
34 Wellington Street, 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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