Former Commercial Bank, 8 Albert Street, Kirkwall

David Rhind, circa 1863, with later alterations. 3-storey, 3-bay near symmetrical, square-plan Italianate former bank with decoratively bracketed overhanging eaves and round-arched corniced 1st floor windows. Stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings; re-pointed squared rubble to sides. Base course; wide band course between ground and 1st floors; cill course to 2nd floor; corince course below bracketed eaves. Moulded surround to round-arched windows at 1st floor with panelled spandrels; moulded, shouldered architraves and corniced cills to 2nd floor windows; long and short quoins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pilastered and corniced doorpiece at ground in bay to left of centre; 2-leaf timber panelled door with floreate carved lintel; rectangular fanlight with margin lights; window at each floor above. mutule corniced and pilastered modern shop window spanning bays to centre and right at ground; window at each floor in each bay above. 2 narrow lights to flat-roofed, slightly recessed, single storey bay to outer right.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay. 2 windows, set close in each bay at ground; window at each floor in each bay above. Paired wallhead stacks with coped and panelled parapet wall between above.

Modern shop window at ground to N elevation; 2-and 4-pane timber sash and case windows elsewhere. Roof material unseen; ashlar coped stacks to E; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.