47, 49 Graham Place, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. Shop. 2 related planning applications.

47, 49 Graham Place, Stromness

WRENN ID
rough-jamb-cedar
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1998
Type
Shop
Address
47, 49 Graham Place, Stromness, KW16 3BY
OS grid reference
HY 253 089
Coordinates
58.96104, -3.30005
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

47 and 49 Graham Place in Stromness is a mid to late 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay rectangular shop with living accommodation above. The building features a chamfered northeast corner at the ground level. The ground floor has a modern dry-dash finish, while the first floor is covered in traditional painted harl. A band course separates the ground and first floors. The openings have concrete margins with aproned cills on the ground floor, and block cills for the first-floor windows.

On the east elevation, the principal facade, there is a modern glazed door in the central bay, with a timber fascia reading 'D A LEASK' above it. There is a shop window at ground level, with a window above on the first floor in the bays on either side.

The north side elevation is four bays, arranged in two groups of two. The left group has a gabled section with a window on each floor to the left and a modern part-glazed door to the right, with a gablehead stack above. The right group also has a window on each floor to the left, with a modern part-glazed door and a window above to the right.

The first-floor windows are modern timber-framed with top-hung upper lights, while the ground floor features modern shop windows. The roof is covered with purple Welsh slate, with a stone ridge and concrete skews. The gables have harled corniced stacks, and the building has uPVC rainwater goods, with some cast-iron downpipes on the north side.

Inside, the building is fitted as a modern butcher's shop, with a cold store located at the rear.

Local climate

47, 49 Graham 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.

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