Temperance Hall, St Mary's Village is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 1999. Hall.

Temperance Hall, St Mary's Village

WRENN ID
muffled-wicket-moth
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 September 1999
Type
Hall
OS grid reference
HY 474 013
Coordinates
58.89664, -2.91332
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Temperance Hall in St Mary's Village is a former Temperance Hall built in the late 19th century. It has a symmetrical rectangular plan with five bays and a two-bay entrance projection at the northeast angle. The exterior is made of roughly coursed rubble with harl-pointed finish.

On the south elevation, there is a central two-leaf timber door with a two-pane fanlight above it, flanked by blocked windows in each bay. The east elevation features a centered window in a single bay gabled hall block to the left, with a crucifix above the gable. To the right, there is a boarded door with a window beside it, set in a slightly recessed porch block.

The west elevation has a centered window in a single bay gabled wall, also topped with a crucifix. The side elevations have timber framed windows, with a four-pane timber sash and case window at the entrance. There are also blocked windows remaining. The roof is covered with purple Welsh slate, featuring a stone ridge and a corniced rubble gablehead stack on the north entrance block. The skews are made of cement, with cavetto moulded skewputts, although the one at the southeast angle is missing. The building predominantly has cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the hall is timber-lined throughout, featuring timber panelled internal doors and a timber dado rail. The ceiling is canted and divided into geometric fields, and there is a two-stage timber platform at the east end.

Local climate

Temperance Hall, St Mary's Village sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 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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