69 Albert Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. 1 related planning application.

69 Albert Street, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
narrow-mantel-wagtail
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 1999
Address
69 Albert Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1HQ
OS grid reference
HY 449 109
Coordinates
58.98238, -2.95993
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

67 Albert Street in Kirkwall is a tenement building from the earlier to mid 19th century, with possible remodelling in the later 19th century and further alterations. It is a three-storey, three-bay structure that is nearly symmetrical, featuring a shop on the ground floor. The exterior is harled with plain cement margins around the openings and has strip quoins.

On the principal elevation, there are modern shop windows with a glazed door in the central and left bays, and a common stair entrance with an architrave in the right bay. The upper floors have regular fenestration.

The side elevation includes an attic window positioned to the right of the gable, topped by a multi-flue gablehead stack. The ground floor has modern shop windows, while the upper floors feature two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is made of grey slate with a stone ridge, stone skews, and harled corniced stacks with stone angles on both the north and south sides. The roof also has ridged cylindrical cans and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior consists of a modern shop on the ground floor, while the upper floors remain unseen and were updated in 1998.

Local climate

69 Albert 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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