7 Cromwell Road, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. 1 related planning application.

7 Cromwell Road, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
bitter-shingle-sparrow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1971
Address
7 Cromwell Road, Kirkwall, KW15 1LH
OS grid reference
HY 451 112
Coordinates
58.98508, -2.95571
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 Cromwell Road in Kirkwall is an early 19th century building that has undergone later alterations. It consists of a row of five, two-storey, three-bay houses with a plain symmetrical rectangular plan. Some of the houses feature crow-stepped gables and are part of a group that includes St Catherine's Place, which is listed separately. The exterior is harled with deep-set openings.

On the northwest (principal) elevation, there are deep-set doors in each bay at the ground level, although these have various modern replacements. Each bay also has a window on both floors flanking the doors.

The windows are timber sash and case, with either two or four panes. The roofs are covered with purple Welsh slate for Numbers 1, 3, and 5, while Number 7 has a grey slate roof. Number 9 features a traditional stone slate roof. The building has stone ridges, harled gableheads, and ridge stacks, as well as stone skews between Numbers 1 and 3, and between 5 and 7. The rainwater goods are predominantly uPVC.

The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1998.

Local climate

7 Cromwell Road, 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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