18 Shore Street, Kirkwall

16 Shore Street in Kirkwall is a building from the later 18th century, which may include some earlier materials, and has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey and attic structure with a rectangular plan, consisting of two houses: Number 16, which has three bays, and Number 18, which has two bays and features a crow-stepped gable facing the street. The building is cement-rendered and lined on the street side, while the other sides are harled. There is a band course between the ground and first floors on the east side.

On the north elevation facing Shore Street, Number 18 has enlarged windows in each bay at ground level, a window in the first floor of the left bay, and two attic windows, with a gablehead stack above. The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, features Number 18 with a cement architrave surrounding a deep-set boarded door with a fanlight in the central bay, and a window above on the first floor. Each bay flanking has a window at both floors. Number 16 has a modern, part-glazed timber panelled door in the central bay at ground level, with a window above on the first floor and a window at each floor in the flanking bays.

The south elevation is two bays wide and includes a part-glazed timber panelled door with a letterbox fanlight in the left bay at ground level, with a window above on the first floor. There is a window in each floor of the right bay, with a gablehead stack above.

The building features a variety of glazing patterns, including two- and four-pane timber sash and case windows, a fixed four-pane window on the north elevation, and rooflights on the east pitches. The roof is covered with modern grey slate, with stone ridges and stone skews, and the gablehead and ridge stacks are cement-rendered and lined with cornices.

The interiors were not seen in 1998.