26 John Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. 1 related planning application.
26 John Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- buried-sandstone-lake
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- Address
- 26 John Street, Stromness, KW16 3AD
- OS grid reference
- HY 255 093
- Coordinates
- 58.96463, -3.29683
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24 John Street in Stromness is a mid-19th century building that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey and attic structure with a rectangular plan, featuring five bays on the front and six bays at ground level. This near-symmetrical pair of houses includes a property to the right (south) that has been converted into a shop. The ground floor is painted cement-rendered and lined, while the first floor is made of pointed rubble. There is a band course separating the ground and first floors, and the windows on the first floor have cement-rendered and lined margins.
On the west (principal) elevation, the bays are grouped in a 2-3 arrangement. The two-bay group on the left (No 26) has a stone step leading to a timber panelled door with a rectangular fanlight in the right bay, with a window above it on the first floor. There is a window in each floor of the left bay. The four-bay group on the right (No 24, which includes the shop) features a picture window at ground level in the central bay, flanked by a deep-set modern glazed door to the right. Above, there is a window on the first floor, with windows in each floor of the flanking bays.
The south (side) elevation has a single bay gabled wall, with a picture window at ground level, a window on the first floor, and an attic window in the gable above to the left, along with a gablehead stack. The north (side) elevation also has a single bay gabled wall, featuring an attic window to the left of the gable and a gablehead stack above.
The east (rear) elevation is regularly fenestrated and includes a stair light at the centre of the rear of No 26. There is an asymmetrically pitched addition projecting east from No 24, which has a box dormer above it.
The building features four- and two-pane timber sash and case windows, with picture windows at ground level for the shop. The roof is covered with Caithness slate and has a stone ridge. There are corniced rubble stacks on the south and at the ridge, a harled corniced gablehead stack on the north, concrete skews with beak skewputts, a small rooflight on the west pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
26 John Street, Stromness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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