25 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
25 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- twisted-sill-sorrel
- 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
- Address
- 25 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 107
- Coordinates
- 58.98047, -2.9616
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
25 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is an earlier 19th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical building with a gable end that is set back from the street, featuring a slightly recessed bay on the outer left. The exterior is harled.
On the north (principal) elevation, the bays are grouped one and two, with a deep-set modern timber door that has a letterbox fanlight located in the centre bay at ground level, and a window above it on the first floor. There is a non-aligned window at each floor in the outer right bay, and a window at each floor in the recessed bay on the outer left.
The east (side) elevation has a window offset to the left of centre on each floor, along with a centred louvered opening in the gable and a spike-finialled gablehead above.
On the west (side) elevation, there is a window offset to the left at the first floor, with a gablehead stack above.
The house features 12- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows, a traditional graded stone slated roof, a stone ridge, stone skews, and a wide harled, corniced gablehead stack on the west gable, along with terracotta cans and uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
25 Victoria 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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