103 Victoria Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
103 Victoria Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- sheer-iron-wind
- 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
- 103 Victoria Street, Stromness, KW16 3BU
- OS grid reference
- HY 253 089
- Coordinates
- 58.96163, -3.2996
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
103 Victoria Street in Stromness is a mid-19th century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey and attic building with three bays, which has been subdivided internally into three properties. The principal elevation faces east and features a gable end to the street. The ground floor has been converted into a shop, which includes a stop-chamfered southeast angle. The exterior is harled and painted above the shopfront and on the south side, with an eaves course on the south. The openings have cement margins that are painted to match the shopfront, and there is a cornice that separates the ground and first floors.
On the east elevation, there is a deep-set glazed shop door in the central bay, flanked by large shop windows. A window is located at the first floor on the outer right, with another window in the attic and a gablehead stack above. The southeast angle features a pall stane.
The south elevation is irregular with seven bays, grouped into three and four. The four-bay group on the right includes a modern steel stair leading to a modern timber panelled door at the first floor, positioned to the left of center. There is a window at the first floor on the outer left and another window offset to the right of center. A shop window is located at the ground level on the outer right, with a window above it at the first floor. The three-bay group on the left has a stone flight leading to a deep-set timber-panelled door at ground level in the central bay, with a window above at the first floor. There is also a tall window with a cement transom spanning the floors on the outer left and a full-height three-light piend-roofed canted window in the bay to the right.
The building features two- and four-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with a stone ridge, replacement concrete skews, and coped harled stacks on the east and west sides. The rainwater goods are made of uPVC. The interior has been converted to a shop at ground level, with the upper floors remaining unseen since 1997.
Local climate
103 Victoria 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 — 2 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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