10 Queen Street, Kirkwall is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 2002. House. 2 related planning applications.
10 Queen Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- first-spindle-sable
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 2002
- Type
- House
- Address
- 10 Queen Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1JE
- OS grid reference
- HY 451 110
- Coordinates
- 58.98335, -2.95624
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
10 Queen Street in Kirkwall is a house built in the early to earlier 19th century. It is a two-storey structure with a rectangular plan and is finished with harling.
On the northeast, or principal elevation, there is a central door flanked by a window on the right and two windows on the left. Above the door, there is a window centered on the first floor, with additional windows on either side above the outer ground floor windows. The first-floor windows are located under the eaves.
The southeast elevation adjoins an adjacent house, while the southwest elevation is plain and unadorned. On the northwest elevation, there is a ground floor window to the right and a centered first-floor window above it, along with a blocked first-floor window to the left.
The house features a replacement timber and glazed door with a fanlight. The principal elevation has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the northwest elevation has 4-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is pitched and covered with Welsh slate, with a Caithness slate easing course and corniced gable apex stacks.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 2002.
Local climate
10 Queen 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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- 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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