8 Main Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
8 Main Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- final-keystone-heron
- Grade
- C
- 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
- 8 Main Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1BU
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 105
- Coordinates
- 58.97843, -2.96158
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay house located at 8 Main Street in Kirkwall, which has undergone later alterations. The house has a rectangular plan and a near-symmetrical design, featuring a crowstepped gable and harled exterior.
On the west (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set modern, part-glazed door at ground level in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. To the right, there is a window on each floor, while the left bay has an enlarged bipartite window at ground level and a window above on the first floor.
The north (side) elevation is blank and includes a gablehead stack.
The windows are two-pane timber sash and case style, and there is a rooflight on the west side. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are harled, corniced gablehead stacks on both the north and south sides. The property has uPVC gutters and cast-iron downpipes.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
8 Main 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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