22 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall

Circa 1805 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey pair of 3-bay rectangular-plan houses with common central crowstepped gable, pitch-roofed entrance porch to Number 21 and single storey, lean-to addition to E gable; rear, (S) elevation abutting Numbers 23 and 24 (listed separately). Harled.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATIONS: NUMBER 21 (to W): window in entrance porch at ground in bay to centre; modern timber-panelled door in right return; window in left return. Window at each floor in bays flanking. NUMBER 22 (to E): deep-set modern timber-panelled door at ground in bay to centre. Window at each floor in bays flanking. Deep-set boarded door in lean-to addition to outer left.

W (ST CATHERINE'S PLACE) ELEVATION: window, offset to right of centre, at each floor; gablehead stack above.

E ELEVATION: bipartite window in lean-to addition at ground, offset to right of centre; window at 1st floor, offset to left; gablehead stack above.

Modern timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights and replacement uPVC windows to Number 21; 2-pane timber sash and case windows to Number 22. Traditional, graded stone tiled roofs; purple Welsh slate to lean-to addition; stone ridges; stone skews; harled, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

ANCILLARY BUILDING: small single storey, rubble lean-to shed sited to E; boarded doors; corrugated-iron roof; cast-iron rainwater goods.