8 Wellington Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971.
8 Wellington Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- lunar-stair-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- OS grid reference
- HY 446 104
- Coordinates
- 58.97779, -2.96388
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Wellington Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century pair of single-storey and attic cottages, with Number 8 on the right being roofless. The cottages have a rectangular plan and feature a chamfered northwest angle, adjoining Numbers 2 and 4 to the left, which are listed separately. The exterior is constructed from random rubble.
On the principal elevation, Number 6 has three bays, previously four. There is a boarded door in the bay to the left of the center, with a window on each floor in the outer left bay. A blocked door is located in the bay to the right of the center, and there is a window on each floor in the outer right bay. Number 8 also has three bays, formerly four, with a two-leaf boarded door in the bay to the left of the center, and a boarded window in the outer left bay. There is a blocked doorway in the bay to the right of the center and a blocked window in the chamfered angle to the outer right.
Number 6 features timber-framed windows, and both cottages have a traditional graded stone slate roof with a tar covering, a stone ridge, and a rubble gablehead stack to the east of Number 6. The rainwater goods are made of uPVC. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
8 Wellington 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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