41 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. House.
41 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- plain-copper-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1999
- Type
- House
- Address
- 41 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 107
- Coordinates
- 58.98008, -2.96163
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
41 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century building that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey structure with a rectangular plan, featuring two sets of six bays and crowstepped gable ends. Originally a pair of houses, it has been converted into a single property that now serves as a shop on the ground floor. The exterior is harled and includes a band course with a shop fascia between the floors on the gabled elevation, an eaves course, and modern concrete cills.
On the eastern gabled elevation, there is a modern part-glazed door at the ground level located at the chamfered angle on the outer left. To the right of this door are two closely spaced shop windows, with two evenly spaced windows above on the first floor and a gablehead stack above.
The southern side elevation is divided into two groups of three bays. The left group features a central bay with two-leaf part-glazed doors at ground level and a window above on the first floor, along with a window in the bay to the left at both floors. The bay to the right has a part-glazed door at ground level and a window above. The right group has a small window at the first floor in the central bay, with non-aligned windows in the left bay and windows in the right bay at both floors.
The windows are timber-framed with top-hung upper lights, and the eastern elevation has large shop windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, along with a harled, coped gablehead stack on the eastern side. The property also has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior has been converted for use as a shop on the ground floor, while the upper floors remain unseen and were last noted in 1998.
Local climate
41 Victoria 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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