Lilybank, East Road, Kirkwall

Lilybank is a mid to late 19th century house that has undergone some alterations and additions. It is a two-storey, three-bay, square-plan building with a piended roof, situated on rising ground to the east. The exterior is constructed of squared and coursed rubble, featuring stugged ashlar dressings, with long and short margins around the windows and long and short quoins.

The west elevation, which is the principal facade, has ashlar steps leading up to a doorpiece that is pilastered and corniced, located in the central bay. The entrance features a deep-set timber panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above it, and there is a window above the door on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both the ground and first floors.

On the east elevation, which is the rear, there is a tall central stair window. There is a flat-roofed addition to the left, which has a window on the ground floor facing east and south, and a window above it on the first floor. The bay to the right also has a window on each floor.

The south elevation has a window in each bay on both floors. The windows throughout the house are 4-pane timber sash and case style, fitted with external double glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and features terracotta ridges, paired harled corniced stacks, and ridged cylindrical cans, along with uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior of the house was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.

To the east of the house, there is a later garage that is rectangular in plan and harled. It has a square-headed door on the south elevation, a grey slate roof, a red clay ridge, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The boundary walls consist of a random rubble wall along the south elevation, topped with a ridged ashlar cope. There are fleur-de-lys-headed cast-iron railings and square-plan ashlar gatepiers with later urn-finialled caps, along with a similar gate.