21 Victoria Street, Kirkwall

19 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is a house built around 1810, with some later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a rectangular plan and an asymmetrical design that presents a long elevation to the street. There is a shop located at the ground level on the left side.

The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings. The windows have plain margins, and the doorways are architraved. On the principal elevation, there is a stop-chamfered and shouldered doorpiece that includes a cast date and the initials '17 RMK MM 43', along with a central heart motif. This door is part-glazed and panelled. Above it, there is a window on the first floor. To the left of centre, there is another architraved doorway with the date and initials 'WC 1855 MB' at ground level, with a window above it on the first floor. There are additional windows in the outer left bay and three evenly spaced windows at ground level in the three bays to the right of centre, with two more above on the first floor.

The north side elevation has two bays, featuring a window at ground level in the left bay, a non-aligned window on the first floor, and an attic window above. The right bay has an attic window and a gablehead stack above it.

The south side elevation consists of three bays, arranged in a 1-2 grouping. There is a two-bay gabled block on the right, which includes an enlarged shop window at ground level in the right bay, a window on the first floor, an attic window, and a gablehead stack above. There is also a window at the first floor to the left.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows with top-hung upper lights. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, stone skews, decorative rope-scrolled skewputts, thack-stanes, and harled, corniced, and coped gablehead and ridge stacks. The rainwater goods are made of uPVC.

Inside, the ground floor has been converted into a modern shop, while the rest of the interior remains unseen, with changes made in 1998.