Bu Of Burray, Burray is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Farmhouse.
Bu Of Burray, Burray
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rafter-tarn
- 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
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- ND 485 970
- Coordinates
- 58.8578, -2.8942
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bu of Burray is a mansion built around 1800 on the site of The Bu. It has three storeys and is three bays wide, featuring a porch. The exterior is harled, with dressed corner stones and chimneys, and it has a slated roof. Inside, there is a fine winding staircase with a solid newel. The property also includes several out-buildings, one of which has a heraldic panel dated 1649, as well as a well.
Local climate
Bu Of Burray, 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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