31 Albert Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Former house. 7 related planning applications.
31 Albert Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- inner-step-honey
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- Former house
- Address
- 31 Albert Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1HL
- OS grid reference
- HY 449 110
- Coordinates
- 58.98341, -2.95934
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
31 Albert Street in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century building that incorporates earlier materials and has undergone later alterations. This two-storey, four-bay, symmetrical former house is set back from the street and has been converted into a shop on the ground floor, with offices above. The exterior is harled, featuring plain cement margins around the openings on the first floor, and there is a modern fascia with a cornice course above the two floors.
On the principal elevation, there are three pairs of recessed modern, glazed, two-leaf shop doors at the ground level, flanked by shop windows. The first floor has four evenly spaced windows. The first-floor windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, while the ground floor consists of shop windows. Rooflights are present on the east pitch. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, rendered, coped gablehead stacks on the north and south sides, stone skews, thack stanes, and uPVC rainwater goods.
Inside, the entire ground floor has been converted into a modern shop, specifically Woolworth's, while the upper floors remain unseen.
Local climate
31 Albert 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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