20 Clay Loan, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. House. 1 related planning application.
20 Clay Loan, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- sheer-vault-acorn
- 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 448 105
- Coordinates
- 58.97852, -2.9603
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20 Clay Loan in Kirkwall is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey house that is part of a small terrace. It has a rectangular plan and features a symmetrical, plain classical design. The building is harled, with windows positioned close to the eaves.
On the south elevation, the bays are arranged in groups of three, with Number 18 on the left and Number 20 on the right, both having identical arrangements. There is a step leading to a modern, part-glazed door located in the central bay at ground level, with a window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors flanking the central door.
The east side elevation of Number 20 is blank, featuring a gablehead stack above and a single-storey projection to the right. The west side elevation adjoins Number 16.
The house has replacement two-pane timber sash and case windows, modern grey slate roofs with stone ridges, stone mutual skews, harled corniced mutual stacks, and a similar gablehead stack on the east side. It also has uPVC rainwater goods. The interiors were not seen as of 1998.
Local climate
20 Clay Loan, 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 — 1 application
- 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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