10 Laing Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. House. 4 related planning applications.
10 Laing Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- rusted-wall-aspen
- 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
- 10 Laing Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1NW
- OS grid reference
- HY 450 110
- Coordinates
- 58.98284, -2.95734
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
10 Laing Street in Kirkwall is a mid to later 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house that is part of a small terrace. The building has a rectangular plan and features a plain classical style with harled exterior and painted margins around the openings.
On the southwest elevation, which is the principal front, there is a deep-set, part-glazed modern timber door located in the central bay, topped by a rectangular fanlight. Above this door, there is a window on the first floor. Each of the flanking bays also has a window on both floors.
The southeast elevation is adjacent to Number 12 Laing Street, which is not listed.
The house has two-pane timber sash and case windows and evenly spaced rooflights on the southwest pitch. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, harled, corniced mutual stacks, stone skews, and uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
10 Laing 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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