87 John Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. House. 3 related planning applications.
87 John Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- outer-wall-poplar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- 87 John Street, Stromness, KW16 3AD
- OS grid reference
- HY 255 094
- Coordinates
- 58.96547, -3.29623
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
87 John Street in Stromness is a mid to later 19th century house that has undergone some alterations. It is a two-storey and attic building with a symmetrical three-bay rectangular plan. There is a low single-storey outbuilding that projects to the right (north). The exterior is harled with plain cement margins around the openings.
On the east (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set architraved timber panelled door at ground level in the central bay, with a boot-scrape recess to the left. Above this door, there is a window on the first floor. The ground floor features boarded windows, while the first floor has a window in the bays on either side.
The north (side) elevation includes the single-storey outbuilding, which is offset to the left of the centre. There is an attic window offset to the right of the gable, with a gablehead stack above. The windows throughout the building are 6-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered in grey slate with a stone ridge, and there are two evenly spaced rooflights on the east pitch. The gablehead stacks on the north and south sides are harled and corniced, and the building has uPVC gutters and cast-iron downpipes.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.
The outbuilding is constructed of harl-pointed rubble and features a boarded door at the centre and another to the outer left. It has a graded Caithness slate roof with a stone ridge and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Additionally, there is a rubble boundary wall that encloses a rectangular garden on steeply rising ground to the west (rear).
Local climate
87 John Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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