59 Victoria Street, Kirkwall

59 Victoria Street in Kirkwall is a late 18th-century building that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey and attic structure with a three-bay rectangular plan, originally a town house but now converted into a shop on the ground floor with accommodation above. The building is situated next to 53 and 55 Victoria Street, which are not listed, and Gunn's Close is to the left.

The exterior features harled walls with cement dressings at the ground level and cement-rendered and lined surfaces on the first floor. There is a cement band course separating the two levels.

On the principal elevation facing east, there is a deep-set modern part-glazed door in the central bay, flanked by large modern shop windows that include a small pane upper border. Above, each bay has an irregularly placed window on the first floor.

The south elevation, facing Gunn's Close, has a small attic window set to the right of the gable, with a gablehead stack above. The rear elevation to the west features a large, asymmetrical three-bay lean-to addition that spans the bays to the right, with a tall wallhead stack offset to the right of centre. Above this addition, there are three small, evenly spaced attic windows on the main block.

The building has two-over-one pane timber sash and case windows on the first floor, with modern shop windows on the ground floor. The east pitch is covered with grey slate, the west pitch with purple slate, and the rear lean-to has corrugated iron roofing. The building also features a stone ridge, harled corniced gablehead stacks to the north and south, a tall harled coped wallhead stack to the west, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior has been converted for use as a shop on the ground floor, while the upper levels remain unseen and were last noted as being altered in 1998.