5 Palace Road, Kirkwall

7 Palace Road in Kirkwall is an 18th-century building that may include some earlier elements. It was refurbished by Sinclair Macdonald & Son in 1970. This two-storey row of houses has a rectangular plan and features crowstepped gables, forming a small terrace on sloping ground. The terrace consists of two three-bay houses on the east, Numbers 5 and 7, which are adjacent to a two-bay house with a segmental-arched pend on the right and a single-storey crowstepped gabled projection on the left, creating two properties, Numbers 3 and 5. The exterior is harled with deep-set openings and long and short margins at the pend entrance.

On the principal elevations, Numbers 7 and 9 feature a part-glazed timber door in the center bay at ground level, with a window above on the first floor. There is a window in each floor of the flanking bays. Number 5 has a window set to the left of the gabled projection, a part-glazed timber door with a window on the right side, and two closely set windows on the first floor above.

The rear elevations show Number 9 as a four-bay structure with a part-glazed timber door in the center bay at ground level and a window above. There is also a window in the right bay at ground level and windows in each floor of the outer right bay. Number 7, also four-bay, has a part-glazed timber door offset to the right of center at ground level and a window above, with additional windows in each floor of the right and left bays. Number 3 has an irregular bay on the principal elevation and Number 5 has an irregular bay on the rear elevation, featuring a dog-leg forestair leading to a part-glazed timber door for Number 3 at the first floor. There are three windows at ground level to the right, two windows on the first floor above, and additional windows in the left bays.

The windows are 9-pane timber sash and case. The traditional graded stone tiled roof has been replaced, featuring a stone ridge, harled, corniced, and blocked mutual ridge stacks, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The interiors were not seen in 1998.