Kirkwall Hotel, Harbour Street, Kirkwall

T S Peace, 1890, with later alterations and additions. 4-storey, 5-bay rectangular-plan, asymmetrical free Renaissance hotel with 4-storey, 5-bay addition to outer right; French pavilion roof with crown and columned and pedimented doorway to slightly advanced and taller central bay; pyramidal roof to slightly advanced and taller bay to outer left; gabletted 4th floor windows breaking eaves. Squared and coursed rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings; modern harl to addition with cement dressings. Base course; cornice course between ground and 1st floors and 3rd and 4th floors; corniced eaves course; long and short margins to windows; moulded shouldered surrounds and various cornices to 1st floor windows; moulded surround and bracketed windows to 2nd floor windows; panelled Corinthian columns to some 1st floor windows; bull-faced, long and short quoins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION; stop-fluted double Corinthian columns with narrow lights between supporting carved pediment over modern 2-leaf boarded doors at ground in bay to centre; tripartite window with semicircular pediment bearing initials 'WD' and date, '1890' at 1st floor; bipartite windows at each floor above; finialled oculus to French pavilion roof above. Bipartite window at ground and 1st floors in bay to left; single window at each floor above. Bipartite window at each floor in bay to outer left. Single window at each floor in bays to right. 5-bay addition to outer right: modern door in large square-headed recess at ground in bay to outer right; window at each floor in each bay remaining (large windows at ground; continuous balcony across 3rd floor).

E (BRIDGE STREET) ELEVATION: irregular 3-bay. Consoled pediment to architraved doorway at ground in bay to outer right; irregular fenestration; paired, shouldered tall wallhead stacks above.

Replaced uPVC windows. Grey slate roof; fish scale tiles to pavilion roofs; felt covering to flat roofed addition; red clay ridges; stone skews; rubble ,corniced stacks to E; harled, corniced stack to W; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative attachments and polygonal hoppers.

INTERIOR: some original features remain including fielded ceiling and cornice to principal 1st floor meeting room; unseen elsewhere, 1998.