31 Bridge Street, Kirkwall

33 Bridge Street in Kirkwall is possibly a late 17th century house that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey, three-bay, nearly symmetrical rectangular building with crowstepped gables. To the left, there is a later, lower single-bay piended addition, which adjoins a single-storey, single-bay former house, Number 31, that also features a crowstepped gable to the north. The exterior of Number 33 is cement rendered at the ground level and harled on the first floor and at the rear. It has a base course and a band course between the floors. The ground floor openings have plain margins, while the first-floor windows have block cills. Number 31 is also cement rendered, with a base course, a painted margin on the ground floor window, and stone mullions on the first-floor window.

On the east (principal) elevation of Number 33, there is a deep-set, modern shop door at ground level in the bay to the left of centre. There is a window on each floor in the central bay and in the flanking bays to the left and right. The outer left bay has two windows set close together, with a window above on the first floor. Number 31 features a large shop window at ground level and a tripartite window above on the first floor.

The west (rear) elevation of Number 33 has four bays, with a forestair leading to a boarded door at the first floor in the bay to the left of centre. There is a window in the outer left bay on the first floor, and each bay to the right has a window. Number 31 has a full-height, pitched-roofed addition in the right bay with a window on the first floor, a boarded door at ground level in the right return, and a timber forestair leading to a boarded door above. There is a lower L-plan lean-to addition to the left.

On the south (side) elevation of Number 33, the piended addition at ground level features a narrow, blank, slightly advanced full-height bay in the centre and a narrow window in the bay to the right. There is a window set to the right of the gable on the main block at the first floor, with a gablehead stack above.

The building has modern shop windows at ground level and four- and two-pane timber sash and case windows above, including a lying pane window at the first floor of the addition to Number 33. It has a grey slate roof with a stone ridge, harled, corniced gablehead stacks to the north and south, red clay cans, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interiors have been converted into a modern shop at ground level, with the upper floors remaining unseen since 1998.