Hobbister House is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1971. Mansion.

Hobbister House

WRENN ID
final-landing-vale
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 December 1971
Type
Mansion
OS grid reference
HY 385 071
Coordinates
58.94706, -3.06923
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hobbister House is a plain mansion built in the 18th to 19th centuries, with a roughly cross-shaped layout. It has two storeys and features harled walls with band courses. The roofs are slated and have skewed gables at the ends.

Local climate

Hobbister House 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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