Fishing Store, Ness Road, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. Fishing store.

Fishing Store, Ness Road, Stromness

WRENN ID
ghost-porch-saffron
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1998
Type
Fishing store
Address
Fishing Store, Ness Road, Stromness, KW16 3DL
OS grid reference
HY 252 082
Coordinates
58.95486, -3.30053
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Fishing Store on Ness Road in Stromness dates back to the early 19th century. It is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan building designed asymmetrically, constructed from roughly coursed rubble.

On the east elevation, which is the principal facade, there is a timber panelled door located in a bay that is offset to the right of the center. To the left of the center, there is a boarded door, and in the outer left bay, there are two-leaf boarded doors. A small window is positioned in the outer right bay.

The north and south side elevations are blank and feature gablehead stacks. The roof is covered with cement-pointed Caithness slates and has a stone ridge. The building has harl-pointed rubble walls and coped gablehead stacks on both the north and south sides.

Local climate

Fishing Store, Ness Road, Stromness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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