16 Alfred Street, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. House.
16 Alfred Street, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- tangled-solder-rush
- 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
- House
- Address
- 16 Alfred Street, Stromness, KW16 3DF
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 086
- Coordinates
- 58.95861, -3.3006
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 Alfred Street in Stromness is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay house with a rectangular plan and a gable facing the street. It is attached to another three-bay house on the east side and has an open court to the south. The exterior is harled with painted cement around the long and short margins of the openings.
On the south elevation, which is the principal front, there is a deep-set modern door in the central bay at ground level, with a window above it on the first floor. Each of the flanking bays has a window on both floors.
The east elevation, which faces the street, features a two-bay gabled wall. There is a window in the left bay at ground level and a window in each floor of the right bay. A multi-flue gablehead stack is located above.
The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes in the upper sections and 6 panes in the lower sections. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are ashlar skews, a stone ridge, and coped stacks on both the east side and the ridge to the west. The property has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.
Local climate
16 Alfred 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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