10 King Street, Kirkwall

10 King Street in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house with later alterations. It is a two-storey and attic, three-bay, T-plan structure designed in a symmetrical plain classical style, featuring a slightly lower two-storey, three-bay addition at the rear gable. The exterior is harled with plain cement margins around the windows and strip quoins.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is a pilastered and corniced doorpiece at the ground level in the central bay, which includes a modern timber panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above. Each bay has a window at both the first floor and ground level.

The north (side) elevation has a window at the first floor in the left bay, with an attic window to the right of the gable, topped by a gablehead stack.

The south (side) elevation shows the main house with an attic window on the left side of the main gabled wall. To the right, there is a recessed projection with a window at each floor and additional windows in the re-entrant angle. The three-bay addition features a window at each floor in the central bay, a modern boarded door with a plain rectangular fanlight at the ground level in the left bay, and a window above it at the first floor. There are also windows at each floor in the right bay.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring a stone ridge, stone skews, harled corniced gablehead stacks, and cylindrical cans, along with predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998. The boundary walls consist of low, cement-rendered and lined walls along the west elevation with an ashlar cope, and harled coped walls to the south and rear.