14, 16 Wellington Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
14, 16 Wellington Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- buried-transept-snow
- 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
- 14, 16 Wellington Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1AY
- OS grid reference
- HY 446 104
- Coordinates
- 58.97768, -2.96459
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
14 and 16 Wellington Street in Kirkwall is an 18th century, two-storey, three-bay (four-bay at ground level) asymmetrical house featuring crow-stepped gables and a flat-roofed addition at the rear. The exterior is harled, and the first-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set, part-glazed modern door located in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. There is a window in each floor of the outer left bay and a window at ground level in the bay to the right of centre. Additionally, there are windows in each floor of the outer right bay.
The west (side) elevation is blank, featuring a gablehead stack above and a blank flat-roofed addition to the outer right.
The windows at ground level are four-pane fixed and timber sash and case, while the first-floor windows are two-pane timber framed with top-hung upper lights. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a stone ridge, with harled, corniced gablehead stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
14, 16 Wellington 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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