79 Victoria Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House.
79 Victoria Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- steep-gateway-nightshade
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- HY 253 090
- Coordinates
- 58.96214, -3.29952
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
79 Victoria Street in Stromness is a house built in the earlier to mid-19th century, with some later alterations. It is a two-storey building, although it appears as a single storey on the west side, and is situated on a steeply rising ground. The exterior features harl-pointed, roughly coursed rubble with rubble quoins.
On the north elevation, there is a square-plan flat-roofed addition that includes a boarded door at the center on the ground floor. To the left, there is another boarded door on the ground floor, with a window above it on the first floor. The right bay has a window on each floor.
The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a modern timber door positioned to the left of the gabled section, with a gablehead stack above it.
The south elevation is blank. The windows throughout the building are 2- and 4-pane timber sash and case styles. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring a Caithness slate easing course, a stone ridge, and a corniced rubble gablehead stack. The property also has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.
Local climate
79 Victoria Street, Stromness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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