3 Wellington Street, Kirkwall

3 Wellington Street in Kirkwall is an 18th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, five-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical building with its gable end facing the street. To the west of the main house is a single-storey, lean-to ancillary building. The main house is harled, while the ancillary building features harl-pointed rubble. The first-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves.

On the west elevation, there is a deep-set, part-glazed modern door at ground level in the bay to the left of center, with a window above it on the first floor. There is a window at each floor in the outer left bay and another window at each floor in the bay to the right of center. Additionally, there is a deep-set, part-glazed modern door at ground level in the penultimate right bay, with a window above it on the first floor in the outer right bay.

The north side elevation has a single bay with a window at the first floor on the right and a gablehead stack above. The south elevation facing Wellington Street is symmetrical and consists of two bays, with a window at each floor in both bays and a gablehead stack above.

The house features replacement 12-pane timber sash and case windows and rooflights on the west pitch. It has a modern tiled roof with a stone ridge, and harled, corniced gablehead stacks on the north and south sides, along with uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen as of 1998. The ancillary building has a centered part-glazed boarded door on its north elevation, a blank south elevation facing the road, and a corrugated-iron roof.

The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls that create a rectangular garden to the north of the house, with a boarded pedestrian gate located to the west of the south elevation.