Storehouse, West Shore, Burray is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Store-house.

Storehouse, West Shore, Burray

WRENN ID
scarred-arch-reed
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1971
Type
Store-house
OS grid reference
ND 470 955
Coordinates
58.84421, -2.91889
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a storehouse located at West Shore, Burray, dated 1645. The building has two storeys and a loft, with a harled exterior and a roof covered in Caithness slates. The southwest skew-putt displays the date of construction, and there is a forestair leading to the entrance on the second storey.

Local climate

Storehouse, West Shore, Burray sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 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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