Milestone, North Ness, Walls, Hoy is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 2002. Milestone.

Milestone, North Ness, Walls, Hoy

WRENN ID
spare-basalt-starling
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 January 2002
Type
Milestone
OS grid reference
ND 305 916
Coordinates
58.8064, -3.20351
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a sandstone milestone from the early to mid-20th century located at North Ness in Walls, Hoy. It features a segmental head and is inscribed with the word 'HOY' in sans serif characters, along with a direction arrow pointing north and the number '11' below it. Additionally, it has the inscription 'S. NESS' with an arrow pointing south and the number '5' at the bottom.

Local climate

Milestone, North Ness, Walls, Hoy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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