44 Alfred Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. House. 2 related planning applications.
44 Alfred Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- fading-rubblework-dawn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- 44 Alfred Street, Stromness, KW16 3DF
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 085
- Coordinates
- 58.95792, -3.30123
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
44 Alfred Street in Stromness is a mid to late 19th century, two-storey house with an attic and a near-symmetrical, four-bay rectangular plan. The gable end faces the street and it is attached to number 42 to the north. The exterior is harled with an eaves course and cement block cills.
On the south elevation, there is a deep-set timber panelled door at ground level in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. Each of the outer bays has a window at both floors, and there is an additional window at ground level in the outer right bay.
The west elevation features a two-bay gabled wall, with a window in the left bay at both floors and a ground-level window in the right bay, along with an attic window above. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, except for a fixed small-pane attic window. The roof is covered with Caithness slate and has a stone ridge, with replacement concrete skews and harled coped gablehead stacks on the east (more recent) and west sides, along with moulded clay cans and uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
44 Alfred 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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