Old Kirk, Whiteness is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Church. 1 related planning application.
Old Kirk, Whiteness
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-merlon-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1977
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Old Kirk, Whiteness, ZE2 9LJ
- OS grid reference
- HU 393 474
- Coordinates
- 60.20958, -1.29108
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Kirk in Whiteness is a former hall church built in 1837. It has a rectangular plan and features a bellcote on the west gable, which serves as the entrance, along with a gabled vestry wing that projects from the east gable. The church has harled walls with droved ashlar margins and projecting cills beneath the windows.
The west entrance gable is symmetrical and includes a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with a rectangular fanlight above it. There is a 16-pane timber sash and case window that rises into the gablehead, which is topped by an ashlar birdcage bellcote with a corniced pyramidal stone cap.
The south and north elevations are regularly fenestrated, each featuring tall five-pane timber fixed-lights in every bay. The east gable has a single-flue gablehead stack for the vestry wing, which has a modern lean-to addition to the north, and a window is located in the principal gablehead above.
The church is topped with purple-grey slate roofs and has ashlar skew-copes with bracketed skewputts. Surrounding the church is a graveyard enclosed by a random rubble wall with a concrete cope to the south. This wall is terminated at the church by a single battered rubble pier with a concrete cap.
Local climate
Old Kirk, Whiteness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 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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