17, 19 Dundas Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. 1 related planning application.
17, 19 Dundas Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- buried-railing-stoat
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Address
- 17, 19 Dundas Street, Stromness, KW16 3BZ
- OS grid reference
- HY 253 088
- Coordinates
- 58.96073, -3.30005
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
19A Dundas Street in Stromness is a mid-19th century house with later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and has a rectangular plan that is asymmetrical, featuring five bays on the upper floor and seven bays on the ground floor. The house incorporates a three-bay shop on the right side, which forms a terrace with a fenestrated chamfered bay at the outer right. The ground floor is painted cement-rendered and lined, while the first floor is made of roughly coursed rubble with harl-pointed finish and cement margins around the windows. The south side is harled, and there is a band course between the ground and first floors.
On the east (principal) elevation, the bays are grouped four to the left and three to the right on the ground floor. The four-bay group on the left has two deep-set timber doors with fanlights located to the right of the centre, with a window in each of the left bays. The three-bay shop group on the right features a modern part-glazed timber door in the centre bay, with a window flanking each side. The first floor has irregular fenestration, including a gabletted dormer that breaks the eaves in the outer left bay and a small attic window in the chamfered bay on the outer right.
The south side elevation has a single bay gabled section with an attic window at the gablehead. The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, picture windows in the shop, and fixed small-pane timber-framed windows at the ground level to the left. The roof is covered with grey slate, has a red clay ridge, and slate on the dormer. There is a harled coped common stack on the north side and uPVC rainwater goods.
Local climate
17, 19 Dundas 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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