Harbour View, Front Road, St Margaret's Hope is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 2005. House. 1 related planning application.
Harbour View, Front Road, St Margaret's Hope
- WRENN ID
- night-vestry-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 September 2005
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ND 446 935
- Coordinates
- 58.82602, -2.9603
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Harbour View, located on Front Road in St Margaret's Hope, is likely a late 18th century house with 19th century additions. This two-storey, three-bay, L-shaped building features a crowstepped design and includes a former smoke house that adjoins it, situated within an irregular terrace to the west. The exterior is constructed from red sandstone rubble, accented with thin render to mimic ashlar stonework, and includes stone lintels and sills.
The northern elevation is symmetrical, with a bay slightly off-center that contains a timber door at ground level and a small window above. The flanking bays feature windows on both floors. On the southern elevation, there is a recessed bay to the right of center, with a window on the first floor and a tiny opening to the left at ground level.
The right return of the advanced gable on the left incorporates the former smoke house, which is in a slightly lower bay. The building has a variety of openings, with timber sash and case windows displaying 4- and 12-pane glazing patterns, although some openings have been blocked. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped squared rubble stacks with some clay cans. The crowstepped skews are ashlar-coped, with a flat skew on the former smoke house.
Inside, the property features some Victorian panelling, ceiling beams, and boarded timber ceilings.
Local climate
Harbour View, Front Road, St Margaret's Hope 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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