6 Old Scapa Road, Kirkwall

Earlier 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay symmetrical town house with later, ball-finialled shallow pitched-roofed entrance porch to centre, lean-to addition to left (N) and flat-roofed addition to right (S). Harled.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern, part-glazed door with letterbox fanlight to entrance porch; window in each return; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking. Boarded pedestrian door with modern garage door to right flanking in flat-roofed addition to outer right. Deep-set modern, part-glazed door in lean-to addition to outer left.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: flat-roofed addition at ground; attic window, set to left above; gablehead stack.

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: lean-to addition at ground; window, with attic window above, set to right of centre; gablehead stack.

2-pane timber sash and case windows; fixed timber-framed attic window to SE elevation. Graded Caithness stone roof; grey slate to porch; stone ridge; stone skews; thack-stane to SE stack; harled, corniced stacks; ridge cylindrical cans; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIOR; not seen, 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low harled walls with ridged concrete cope; centred pair of square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps; similar pair to N; similar angle pier to S.