2 King Street, Kirkwall

2 King Street in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house that has undergone some alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and has a symmetrical, three-bay rectangular plan. To the right, there is a later addition of a single-storey, stepped screen wall leading to a garage. The exterior is cement-rendered, with plain cement margins around the openings, and features an ashlar cornice and strip quoins.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is a doorpiece with an architrave and cornice in the central bay at ground level. This includes a timber panelled door topped with a decorative geometric fanlight, and a window above it on the first floor. Each bay has a window on both floors, and there is a stepped, coped screen wall leading to the garage on the outer right, which has a boarded garage door.

The east (rear) elevation is regularly fenestrated and features a central stair window. The north (side) elevation has an attic window positioned to the right and a gablehead stack.

The windows throughout include 4-pane timber sash and case windows, a 12-pane timber sash and case attic window, and three evenly spaced rooflights on the west pitch, along with a large rooflight on the east pitch. The roof is covered with Welsh purple slate and has a stone ridge. The gablehead stacks on the north and south are cement-rendered and lined, featuring ashlar quoins, while the stone skews and thack stanes are present. The property predominantly uses cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary walls and gatepiers are cement-rendered and lined, with coped walls on the west side and central square-plan coped piers. There is also a harled coped wall that encloses a rectangular garden at the rear (east).