10 School Place, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. Cottage.

10 School Place, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
lost-portal-umber
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
Cottage
Address
10 School Place, Kirkwall, KW15 1NY
OS grid reference
HY 451 108
Coordinates
58.98106, -2.9567
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

10 School Place is a late 18th to early 19th century cottage that has undergone later alterations. It is a single-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan structure with a symmetrical crowstep gable, located at the southern end of a small terrace on rising ground.

The west elevation, which is the principal facade, features a modern part-glazed door with a letterbox fanlight in the central bay, flanked by a window in each of the side bays. The south elevation is blank, with a gablehead stack above. The north elevation adjoins Number 8, which is listed separately.

The cottage has uPVC windows with top-hung upper lights, a grey tiled roof with a stone ridge, harled corniced gablehead, and mutual ridge stacks, along with uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

10 School Place, 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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