5 Khyber Pass, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. Cottage.
5 Khyber Pass, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- swift-storey-evening
- 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
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 089
- Coordinates
- 58.96086, -3.30072
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Khyber Pass is a late 18th century cottage that has undergone later alterations. It is a single storey and attic structure with a rectangular plan and two bays, built on ground that rises steeply to the west. The exterior is harled with an eaves course.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set modern timber door located in the center bay, with a window to the right. The south (rear) elevation features a low-set window at ground level on the outer right side.
The east (side) elevation has a gabled wall with two bays. There is a window at ground level and a non-aligned attic window above in the right bay, while the left bay also has a ground-level window. A gablehead stack is present above.
The west (side) elevation consists of a single bay gabled wall, featuring an attic window to the left and a gablehead stack above.
The cottage has 4-pane timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. The roof is covered with graded Caithness slate, has a stone ridge, and includes rooflights on the south pitch. The gablehead stacks on the east and west elevations are harled and corniced, and there are uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen as of 1997.
Local climate
5 Khyber Pass, 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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