6 Melvin Place, Stromness is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
6 Melvin Place, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- endless-roof-saffron
- 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
- 6 Melvin Place, Stromness, KW16 3DD
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 087
- Coordinates
- 58.95971, -3.30121
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Melvin Place in Stromness is a late 18th to early 19th century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey and attic, two-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical gable-ended structure. The exterior is made of roughly coursed rubble with concrete window cills.
On the east (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set boarded door at ground level in the left bay, with a window above it on the first floor. The right bay features a window on each floor and a small attic window above. A gablehead stack is located above.
The north (side) elevation has a part-glazed timber panelled door in the left bay, with a window above it on the first floor. There is also a window at ground level in the right bay, and a shed dormer above.
The house features four- and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with Caithness slates, and there are stone skews with cavetto moulded skewputts. The gablehead stack is corniced and harled, and the property has cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.
Local climate
6 Melvin Place, 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 5 Melvin Place, Stromness
- 4 Melvin Place, Stromness
- 3 Melvin Place, Stromness
- 2 Melvin Place, Stromness
- 1 Melvin Place, Stromness
- 4 Hellihole Road, Stromness
- 78 Dundas Street, Stromness
- Stromness Public Library, 2 Hellihole Road, Stromness
- 84 Dundas Street, Stromness
- Outhouse, 78 Dundas Street, Stromness