10 Main Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
10 Main Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- vacant-rubble-saffron
- Grade
- C
- 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
- 10 Main Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1BU
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 105
- Coordinates
- 58.97833, -2.96158
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
10 Main Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century house that has undergone some later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan building with a nearly symmetrical design and crow-stepped gables, forming part of a terraced pair. The house features a stop-chamfered southwest angle and is harled with block cills under the windows.
On the west (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set modern part-glazed door at the ground level in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. To the right, there is a window on each floor, while the left bay has two closely set windows at the ground level and one window above on the first floor.
The south (side) elevation has a window at the ground level in the left bay and another window on the first floor in the right bay, with a gablehead stack positioned above.
The windows are timber sash and case, with four and two panes. The roof has a rooflight on the west pitch, a grey slate covering, and a stone ridge. The south gable has a corniced stack, while a similar common stack is located on the north side. The property has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1998.
Local climate
10 Main 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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- 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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