Tomison's Academy, South Ronaldsay is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. School.
Tomison's Academy, South Ronaldsay
- WRENN ID
- nether-barrel-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1977
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- ND 442 856
- Coordinates
- 58.75476, -2.96449
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tomison's Academy is a tall single-storey school building constructed in 1851, featuring a three-pitched roof and arranged in a T-plan layout. The building has two-window fronts, except at the flanks where there are re-entrant angles with one-window sections that include lower porches. The exterior showcases harrow angular coursers and ashlar quoins that are the width of two coursers, along with an ashlar plinth and porches. The windows are designed with mullion and transom crosses, incorporating small lying panes. The roofs are slated, with the central pavilion topped by a group of three ashlar chimney stacks. These stacks are battered and adorned with neo-Greek capital cornices, while the outer stacks are square-plan and the central stack is oblong, featuring columnar chimney cans arranged in a 1-3-1 pattern, creating an effective silhouette.
Local climate
Tomison's Academy, South Ronaldsay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 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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