41 Albert Street, Kirkwall

41 Albert Street in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan building with a later single-storey lean-to addition at the rear, creating an L-shape. The house features a centrally located semi-octagonal stair tower on the east side, which has a piended roof and a canted angle on the south side. The exterior is harled.

On the east elevation, the principal façade, there is a tall stair window set high in the central stair tower. To the left, there is a modern part-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight above it. Each bay has a window on both floors flanking the central tower.

The west elevation, which is the rear, has a window in the centre bay on each floor. There is a window in the right bay that is set close to the wall, with a non-aligned wallhead stack above it. The outer right bay has a window on the first floor. The lean-to projection on the outer left side has three irregularly placed windows, and there is a slightly advanced entrance with a modern timber door at the internal angle to the right, along with a window on the first floor above the main house.

The south elevation is blank and features a gablehead stack above. The modern windows have top-hung upper lights. The roof is traditionally covered with graded stone tiles, while the lean-to addition at the rear has a felt roof. The piended stair tower is covered with asbestos tiles, and the roof has a stone ridge and stone skews. There are tall, harled, corniced gablehead stacks on the north and south sides, a similar wallhead stack on the west, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by low rubble boundary walls with a rubble cope, surrounding a rectangular-plan garden at the rear.