14 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

14 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
outer-chapel-primrose
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
14 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall, KW15 1HX
OS grid reference
HY 451 112
Coordinates
58.98456, -2.95603
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

14 St Catherine's Place in Kirkwall dates from around 1805 and has undergone later alterations. It is a single-storey and attic structure that consists of a pair of three-bay houses forming a small terrace, with a crow-stepped gable on the northern side (Number 12) and adjacent to Number 15 St Catherine's Place, which is listed separately. The exterior is harled.

The western (principal) elevation features Number 13 to the north, which has a deep-set part-glazed modern door in the central bay, with a window in each of the flanking bays and a small attic window positioned wide to the outer right. Number 14 to the south has a deep-set modern timber door in the central bay, a window in the left bay, and an enlarged window in the right bay.

On the northern side elevation (Number 13), there are two bays. It has a window on each floor in the right bay, an attic window in the left bay, and a gablehead stack above. Number 13 features 2-pane timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights, a central rooflight, while Number 14 has 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roofing materials include modern grey slate for Number 13 and concrete tiles for Number 14, with stone ridges and central skews. The gablehead and ridge stacks are corniced, and uPVC rainwater goods are present.

The interiors have not been seen since 1998.

Local climate

14 St Catherine's Place, 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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