The Whitehouse, Whitehouse Lane, Stromness is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. Outbuilding.
The Whitehouse, Whitehouse Lane, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- slow-cornice-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- Type
- Outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- HY 251 087
- Coordinates
- 58.95897, -3.3022
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Whitehouse, located on Whitehouse Lane in Stromness, is an outbuilding that likely dates back to around 1680. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, featuring a three-bay rectangular plan and asymmetrical crow-stepped gables. A stone forestair leads to the north side, and there is a rectangular shed or store situated close to the west, behind the rebuilt Whitehouse. The building is constructed of harl-pointed rubble.
On the east, or principal elevation, the doorway is offset to the left of center, with a window to the outer left and another window to the right of center. The north side features a stone forestair with an extended wall projecting east, leading to a boarded door that is offset to the left of the gable. Above this door, there is a gablehead stack.
The windows are 6-pane timber sash and case style. The roof is made of corrugated iron with a stone ridge, and there are rubble corniced gablehead stacks on both the north and south sides, with the stack on the south extended.
To the west, there is a rectangular-plan pitched store made of harl-pointed rubble, topped with a roof of Purple Welsh slates and a stone ridge.
The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1997.
Local climate
The Whitehouse, Whitehouse Lane, Stromness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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