30-32 Alfred Street And Slipway, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. Fishing station. 3 related planning applications.

30-32 Alfred Street And Slipway, Stromness

WRENN ID
last-chancel-amber
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
Fishing station
Address
30-32 Alfred Street And Slipway, Stromness, KW16 3DE
OS grid reference
HY 252 086
Coordinates
58.95818, -3.30093
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

30-32 Alfred Street and Slipway in Stromness is a late 18th to early 19th century fishing station, which has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a six-bay rectangular plan that is asymmetrical. The exterior is harled, and it has small upper floor windows.

On the north (principal) elevation, there is a boarded door at ground level in the central bay, with a window above it. To the right, there is a window on each floor, and a two-leaf boarded door with a non-aligned window above in the penultimate bay. There is a louvered opening on the upper floor to the outer right, and a window at each floor in the bay to the left of centre. A small opening is located between the floor levels in the penultimate bay to the left. There is also a window in a lean-to addition on the outer left and a two-leaf timber door on the right return.

The south (rear) elevation is irregularly fenestrated and features louvered openings at the west end. The building has fixed timber-framed windows and louvered openings. The roof is covered with replacement grey slate, has a stone ridge, and features replacement concrete skews. The harled corniced ridge stack and gablehead stack are located to the west, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The slipway consists of a cement-covered rectangular-plan open yard between the ranges, with a cement-covered slipway running through it, likely underlain by flagstone slabs.

Local climate

30-32 Alfred Street And Slipway, 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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