13 Bridge Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Office, town house. 1 related planning application.
13 Bridge Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- eastward-truss-dew
- 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
- Office, town house
- Address
- 13 Bridge Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1HR
- OS grid reference
- HY 450 111
- Coordinates
- 58.98425, -2.9584
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
13 Bridge Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century town house that has been reworked in the 19th century and undergone later alterations. The building is two stories high with an attic and features three bays, having been converted for use as an office. It has large pitch-roofed dormers and a two-bay gable end facing the street to the east, with a crow-stepped gable on the west side.
The exterior is painted cement rendered and lined on the east elevation, while the principal elevation to the south is harled. Sandstone dressings are present at the ground level, with painted plain cement margins above on the east elevation. The openings at the ground level on the east and the main door on the south have chamfered reveals. The building has a base course and a corniced fascia on the east elevation, along with strip quoins.
On the east (gabled) elevation, there is a part-glazed timber panelled door with a large rectangular fanlight at the ground level in the central bay, flanked by enlarged shop windows. Each bay above has a window on both floors, and there is a gablehead stack.
The south (entrance) elevation features a similar part-glazed timber panelled door with a large rectangular fanlight at the ground level in the central bay, with a window above on the first floor. To the left, there is a deep-set modern timber door with a window beside it at the ground level in the outer left bay, with a window above on the first floor and a dormer window above that. The outer right bay has a window at each floor and a dormer window above.
The west (rear) elevation has a modern projection at the ground level in the bays, with a window set to the right on the first floor and an attic window above, along with a gablehead stack.
The building predominantly features two-pane timber sash and case windows, with a large fixed uPVC office/shop window at the ground level on the east. The roof is covered in grey slate, with a stone ridge and stone skews. The east side has a cement-rendered, coped stack, while the west side has a harled, coped stack that is not in use. The building has uPVC rainwater goods, although some cast-iron downpipes remain.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
13 Bridge 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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