5 Alfred Terrace, Stromness is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1998.
5 Alfred Terrace, Stromness
- WRENN ID
- inner-pillar-sage
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1998
- OS grid reference
- HY 252 086
- Coordinates
- 58.95811, -3.30183
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Alfred Terrace in Stromness is a late 19th to early 20th century, two-storey, ten-bay terrace. It features a symmetrical three-bay cottage on the left (No 3), a near-symmetrical three-bay cottage in the center (No 4), and an asymmetrical four-bay cottage on the right (No 5). The exterior is harled with a base course, cement cills, and plain architraved doorways for Nos 3 and 4.
On the principal elevation, No 3 has a part-glazed boarded door in the center bay at ground level, with a window above on the first floor and windows in the flanking bays. No 4 features a part-glazed door in the center bay at ground level, with a window breaking the eaves above on the first floor. There is also a window breaking the eaves in the left bay and a ground-level window with a window breaking the eaves above in the right bay. No 5 has a modern timber door in the right of center bay at ground level, with non-aligned windows in each floor of the right bay and a first-floor window in the left bay, plus a small window at ground level in the outer left bay.
The north side elevation has a two-bay gabled wall with a window at ground level and a window on each floor in the right bay, along with a gablehead stack above. The west rear elevation is irregularly fenestrated.
The terrace predominantly features nine- and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, with No 5 having two-pane windows with top-hung lights. The roofs are covered with modern slate, and the stacks are harled with coped tops and moulded cans, while uPVC rainwater goods are present.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
5 Alfred Terrace, 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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