5 Walls Close, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. House.
5 Walls Close, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- watchful-merlon-rain
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 107
- Coordinates
- 58.98024, -2.96174
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Walls Close in Kirkwall is possibly an 18th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a single-storey and attic, three-bay rectangular-plan, symmetrical end of terrace house, adjoining another terrace to the east. The building features pitch-roofed dormers that break the eaves and has a single-storey lean-to projection on the west side. The exterior is harled with an eaves course, and there is a rectangular-plan garden to the west.
On the south (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set part-glazed timber door located in the central bay. Each of the flanking bays contains a window at both floors. To the outer left, there is a deep-set boarded door in the lean-to projection.
The west (side) elevation features a lean-to projection that spans the ground level. There is a window in the right bay at the first floor, and a gablehead stack is positioned above.
The windows are 4-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with modern grey slate, while the lean-to has a traditional graded stone slate roof. The building has stone skews, a harled, corniced gablehead stack on the west side, a common stack on the east side, cylindrical cans, and uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998. Surrounding the rectangular-plan garden to the west are rubble coped boundary walls.
Local climate
5 Walls Close, 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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