22 High Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 6 related planning applications.
22 High Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- kindled-dormer-khaki
- 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
- House
- Address
- 22 High Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1AZ
- OS grid reference
- HY 444 103
- Coordinates
- 58.97708, -2.96741
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This 18th-century house at 22 High Street, Kirkwall, has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey building with a single bay gabled end facing the street and a two-bay flat-roofed block extending over the garage from the entrance elevation. The exterior is harled.
On the north (High Street) elevation, there is a window on each floor, positioned to the right of center, with a gablehead stack above. The bridging block over the garage features a window in each bay, set back to the outer left.
The east (entrance) elevation has a deep-set timber door located in the central bay at ground level, beneath the bridging block. There is a window at the first floor in the bay to the right and another window at ground level in the outer right bay.
The windows are timber-framed with top-hung upper lights. The roof is covered with purple Welsh slate, featuring a stone ridge and stone skews, along with harled, corniced gablehead stacks on the north and south sides. The property has uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1998.
Local climate
22 High 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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