1 Bridge Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. House. 4 related planning applications.
1 Bridge Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- broken-pier-curlew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1 Bridge Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1LD
- OS grid reference
- HY 449 112
- Coordinates
- 58.98441, -2.95881
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Bridge Street in Kirkwall is a late 18th century house that incorporates earlier elements and has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and a three-bay rectangular plan, featuring a stop-chamfered northwest angle and harled exterior.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a part-glazed boarded door with a letterbox fanlight located in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors flanking the central entrance.
The south (rear) elevation has a window in each bay at both floors, although they are arranged irregularly.
The west (side) elevation features a window at each floor, offset to the right of the center, along with a small attic window to the right of the gable. There is a multi-flue gablehead stack above.
The east (side) elevation abuts Number 3 Bridge Street.
The building predominantly has four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is made of grey slate with purple slate at the ridge and a stone ridge. The west gable has a corniced stack, and uPVC rainwater goods are present.
Local climate
1 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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