Bowling Pavilion, Brandquoy Park, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. Bowling clubhouse.

Bowling Pavilion, Brandquoy Park, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
tenth-vault-bracken
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
Bowling clubhouse
OS grid reference
HY 449 107
Coordinates
58.98039, -2.95864
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bowling Pavilion at Brandquoy Park in Kirkwall was built in 1906. It is a single-storey, rectangular building with five bays, constructed with timber boarding. The pavilion features chamfered square-plan supports and timber railings along the veranda on the main elevation, and it has plain bargeboards.

On the south (principal) elevation, there are boarded doors located in the second, fourth, and fifth bays from the left, with a chamfered corner to the right. The centre and outer left bays contain windows. The north (rear) elevation has a window in a slightly advanced bay on the outer left, while the west (side) elevation features a window set to the right.

The windows are timber-framed with top-hung upper lights. The roof is a corrugated-iron cat-slide design, and it includes cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the pavilion is largely intact. The locker room is timber boarded and has full-height fitted, numbered equipment lockers on each side, along with individual jack corner display shelving in the southeast angle. There is also a room with display cabinets, shelves, timber benches, and metal hooks.

Local climate

Bowling Pavilion, Brandquoy Park, 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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