62 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1981. House. 3 related planning applications.

62 Victoria Street, Kirkwall

WRENN ID
sunken-chalk-cream
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1981
Type
House
Address
62 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
OS grid reference
HY 448 106
Coordinates
58.97959, -2.96135
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

62 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is a late 18th to early 19th century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a three-storey, three-bay (four-bay at ground level) rectangular-plan building with a nearly symmetrical design and a flat-roofed single-storey addition at the rear. The exterior is harled with plain cement margins around the openings, and the second-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is a timber panelled door with a small-pane fanlight located in the central bay at ground level, with a window above on each floor. The outer left bay features a window on each floor, while the outer right bay has a window at each floor and an additional window at ground level to the right of the centre.

The north (side) elevation is blank and features a gablehead stack. The south (side) elevation has a deep-set door, offset to the left of centre, leading to the main gabled block, with a gablehead stack above. To the right, there is a modern part-glazed door with a window in each bay flanking the flat-roofed addition.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with modern grey slate and has a stone ridge, while the gablehead stacks on the north and south are harled with cornices. The building predominantly features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior has been converted into a Health Information Centre on the ground floor, while the upper floors remain unseen and were last noted in 1998.

Local climate

62 Victoria 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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