2 High Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House.
2 High Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- riven-rood-poplar
- 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
- OS grid reference
- HY 445 104
- Coordinates
- 58.97742, -2.96599
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 High Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay end-of-terrace house that has undergone later alterations. It features a rectangular plan and is built on ground that rises to the west. The exterior is harled with an eaves course, and the first-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set, modern, part-glazed door located in the central bay at ground level, with a small, narrow window above it on the first floor. Each bay on this elevation has a window on both floors flanking the door.
The east (side) elevation is blank and has a gablehead stack. The house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with a central first-floor window featuring two panes. The roof is traditionally covered with graded stone tiles (which have been replaced), and it includes a stone ridge, stone skews, and a harled, corniced gablehead stack on the east side, along with a similar common stack on the west. The property has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
2 High 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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