86 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
86 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- roaming-steel-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 86 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DQ
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 105
- Coordinates
- 58.97894, -2.9614
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
86 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is a mid 18th century, two-storey, three-bay (four-bay at ground level) symmetrical house that has been converted into a tea shop on the ground floor. It features central twin entrances at the ground level and is adjacent to Number 80, which is listed separately. The main elevation is harled, while the southern side is constructed of random rubble.
On the principal (west) elevation, there are part-glazed timber panelled doors with letterbox fanlights in the central bays at ground level, with a single window above on the first floor. Each flanking bay has a window on both floors.
The southern side elevation is blank and has a gablehead stack. The first-floor windows are two-pane timber sash and case, while the ground floor windows are twelve-pane timber sash and case. The roof has been replaced with grey fish-scale tiles and features a stone ridge, stone skews, and a corniced gablehead stack on the southern side. The northern gable, which abuts Number 80, has a crowstepped design. The property predominantly uses cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was converted to a tea shop in 1998, and the upper floors are currently unseen.
Local climate
86 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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