The Garrison Theatre, Lyness, Doonatown, Walls, Hoy is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 2002. Theatre, house.
The Garrison Theatre, Lyness, Doonatown, Walls, Hoy
- WRENN ID
- secret-moat-root
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2002
- Type
- Theatre, house
- OS grid reference
- ND 307 922
- Coordinates
- 58.81236, -3.20064
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Garrison Theatre, located in Lyness, Doonatown, Walls, Hoy, is a former theatre built around 1942. This two-storey building showcases Art Deco architectural style with its black-rendered brickwork and white-banded windows, featuring a stepped elevation.
On the northeast (principal) elevation, there is a flat-roofed central porch with a central door flanked by windows. The ground floor has three windows, while the first floor is shorter with a central section that is slightly advanced and heightened, containing two windows. The bays on the right and left are set back and each has two windows. A stepped wall is set back at the far right and left, creating a platform above the outer ground floor bays.
The southeast elevation features two ground floor windows, with the white-banding continuing from the front elevation. There is a window/door on the first floor, and a stepped gable wall at this level.
The southwest elevation has a grey-painted wall with a single-storey flat-roofed extension to the right. The windows are irregularly placed, with two on the ground floor and two on the first floor.
The northeast elevation includes a ground floor window to the right and a stepped gable wall at the first floor.
The building has UPVC windows and some timber casements, along with a glazed front door that features sunburst timber astragals. The roof is flat. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 2000.
Local climate
The Garrison Theatre, Lyness, Doonatown, Walls, Hoy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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