54, 56 Victoria Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House. 6 related planning applications.
54, 56 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- drifting-gable-cream
- 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
- House
- Address
- 54, 56 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
- OS grid reference
- HY 448 106
- Coordinates
- 58.97975, -2.96127
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
54 and 56 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century house with later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a rectangular plan and a crowstep gable, which is attached to a separate two-storey, two-bay house on the right side. The exterior is harled.
On the west (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set boarded door at the ground level, located in a bay that is offset to the left of the center. Flanking the door are windows in each bay, with a larger window in the outer right bay. The upper level features regular fenestration.
The north (side) elevation includes a later flat-roofed projection at the ground level, with a gablehead stack above it.
The windows are timber sash and case, with 2 and 12 panes. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, cavetto moulded skewputts, and a corniced gablehead stack on the north side, while there is a common coped stack on the south side. The property has uPVC rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
54, 56 Victoria 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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