20 Bridge Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
20 Bridge Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- sacred-lead-grain
- 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
- Address
- 20 Bridge Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1HR
- OS grid reference
- HY 450 111
- Coordinates
- 58.98403, -2.95784
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20 Bridge Street in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house with later alterations. It is a two-storey and attic structure with a rectangular plan and three bays, featuring a gabled end facing the street. It is adjacent to another two-storey, three-bay house on the right, known as Number 22. Number 20 has a cement-rendered and lined exterior, while the rear is harled. Number 22 is entirely harled. There is a cornice course between the ground and first floors, with carved anthemion consoles at the ends of the cornice.
On the west elevation facing Bridge Street, there are two-leaf boarded storm doors leading to an architraved doorpiece in the central bay. Large shop windows flank this door in each bay. Above, there is a window in the left of centre bay on the first floor, and a wide gablehead stack is present.
The south elevation shows a three-bay arrangement for Number 20. It has a deep-set architraved modern timber door in the central bay at ground level, with a window above on the first floor. There are also windows in the right bay at both floors and a window in the left bay on the first floor. The three-bay group to the right, Number 22, features a part-glazed modern timber door in the central bay at ground level, with a window above on the first floor. There are windows in the left bay at both floors, and a modern timber-panelled door in the penultimate right bay. The outer right bay has a window at ground level and an enlarged window above on the first floor.
The north elevation is irregularly fenestrated, featuring three box dormers above. The building exhibits a variety of glazing patterns, including large timber-framed shop windows and 4- and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring stone ridges and stone skews. There is a cement-rendered and lined corniced gablehead stack on the west side, a similar central ridge stack, and a rubble corniced gablehead stack on the east side. The building predominantly uses uPVC for rainwater goods.
The interior of Number 20 has been converted to a shop at ground level, while the upper floors are not visible. Number 22 was unseen as of 1998.
Local climate
20 Bridge 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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