12 School Place, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. House. 1 related planning application.
12 School Place, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-newel-equinox
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1999
- Type
- House
- Address
- 12 School Place, Kirkwall, KW15 1NY
- OS grid reference
- HY 451 108
- Coordinates
- 58.98107, -2.95652
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 School Place in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical building, situated slightly back from the street on rising ground. The exterior is harled, and the first-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves.
On the southeast, or principal elevation, there is a timber panelled door located in the central bay at ground level, with a small window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors flanking the central door.
The southwest side elevation features a window set to the right on the first floor, with a gablehead stack above it. The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes and a single-over-six configuration, and there is a timber-framed central window on the first floor. The roof is covered with purple slate and includes a stone ridge and stone skews, along with harled, corniced gablehead stacks. The property also has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
12 School 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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