6 Old Scapa Road, Kirkwall

6 Old Scapa Road in Kirkwall is an earlier 19th century town house that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey building with an attic and features a symmetrical three-bay design. The house has a later entrance porch with a shallow pitched roof topped with ball finials at the center, a lean-to addition on the left (north), and a flat-roofed addition on the right (south). The exterior is harled.

On the northwest (principal) elevation, there is a modern part-glazed door with a letterbox fanlight leading into the entrance porch, flanked by a window on each side. Above the porch, there is a window at the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors. To the right, in the flat-roofed addition, there is a boarded pedestrian door next to a modern garage door. On the left, the lean-to addition has a deep-set modern part-glazed door.

The southeast (side) elevation features a flat-roofed addition at ground level, with an attic window set to the left above and a gablehead stack. The northeast (side) elevation has a lean-to addition at ground level, with a window and an attic window above, positioned to the right of center, along with a gablehead stack.

The windows are two-pane timber sash and case types, with a fixed timber-framed attic window on the southeast elevation. The roof is made of graded Caithness stone, with grey slate on the porch, stone ridges, stone skews, thack-stane on the southeast stack, and harled, corniced stacks. The ridge features cylindrical cans, and uPVC rainwater goods are used.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property also includes boundary walls made of low harled material with a ridged concrete coping, and there is a centered pair of square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps, along with a similar pair to the north and an angle pier to the south.