6 Dundas Crescent, Kirkwall

Late 19th century. 2-storey, 6-bay mirrored pair of 3-bay houses, with corbelled, gabled outer bays and consoled, gabled entranced porches; spike finials and bargeboards to gables. Stugged sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. Base course. Chamfered reveals to windows; exposed rafters under eaves.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 3-3. 3-bay group to left (Number 6): boarded door to shouldered roll-moulded doorpiece at ground in bay to centre; letterbox fanlight; blank shield motif to gable above; single window at 1st floor. 3-light canted window at ground in bay to left; single window to canted, corbelled gable above. Corniced tripartite bay at ground to right of centre; single gabletted window, breaking eaves above. Identical, mirrored arrangement to 3-bay group to right (Number 8).

4-pane timber sash and case windows; small rooflights to W pitch to Number 8. Purple slate roof; stone ridge; corniced dressed ashlar gablehead and ridge stacks; full complement of polygonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low coped walls; fleur-de-lys-headed railings; square-plan squared rubble gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps.