27 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House.

27 Victoria Street, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
guardian-bastion-finch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
HY 448 107
Coordinates
58.98042, -2.96155
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

27 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century, two-storey house with later alterations. It has a rectangular plan and a gable end, and it is attached to another rectangular house at the rear. The exterior is harled with cement dressings, featuring a band course between the ground and first floors.

On the east gable elevation, there are three evenly spaced windows at the ground level and two evenly spaced windows on the first floor, with a gablehead stack above. The south entrance elevation is irregular and has four bays. In the central bay, there is a deep-set part-glazed timber door with a rectangular fanlight. To the left of the centre, there is a window on the first floor, and there are windows at each floor in the penultimate bay to the left. A small window is located at the ground level in the outer right bay.

The north side elevation is blank. The windows are timber sash and case, with configurations of 2, 4, and 12 panes. There are also small rooflights on the south pitch. The traditional roof is graded stone slate, featuring a stone ridge, stone skews, and a shield motif on the cavetto-moulded skewputts. The east gable has a harled, corniced stack, and there is a similar common stack on the west side. The property predominantly has uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not seen during the last assessment in 1998.

Local climate

27 Victoria 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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