69 Alfred Street, Stromness is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. Town house.
69 Alfred Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- winter-granite-candle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 69 Alfred Street, Stromness, KW16 3DF
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 085
- Coordinates
- 58.95788, -3.30151
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
69 Alfred Street in Stromness is a town house dating from around 1820, with later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey building with an attic and a symmetrical rectangular plan, situated on rising ground to the west. The exterior is harled with cement margins around the openings and features a base course.
On the east elevation, there is a stone step leading to a modern part-glazed timber panelled door, with a window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window at both floors, flanking the entrance.
The south elevation includes an attic window to the right of the gablehead, which has a stack above it. The north elevation features a two-bay gabled wall, with a window at each floor and an attic window above in the left bay. There is also a ground floor window in the right bay.
The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes and 9 panes. The east pitch of the roof has three evenly spaced roof lights. The roof is covered with purple Welsh slate, has a stone ridge, concrete skews, coped harled stacks, moulded cans, and uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.
Local climate
69 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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