6 Hillside Road, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998. House. 3 related planning applications.
6 Hillside Road, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- scarred-pedestal-snow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- 6 Hillside Road, Stromness, KW16 3AH
- OS grid reference
- HY 256 099
- Coordinates
- 58.9698, -3.29473
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a later 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house located at 6 Hillside Road in Stromness. It has a nearly square plan and is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with painted cement-rendered dressings. The principal elevation, facing east, features a recessed central bay that includes an architraved timber door and a rectangular fanlight above it. The two flanking bays are gabled and each has a canted three-light window topped with a piended slate roof, along with a single window above. The gables are adorned with bargeboards and spike-finial pendants. The north, south, and west elevations also have twin gables.
The windows are timber sash and case, arranged in a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slate, and the rainwater goods are made of cast iron. The interior was not accessible for viewing in 1997.
To the east, there are rubble boundary walls that include decorative wrought-iron gates and railings.
Local climate
6 Hillside Road, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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