18 East Road, Kirkwall

18 East Road in Kirkwall is a pair of two-storey houses built in the earlier 19th century. They feature a near-symmetrical, rectangular plan and form a single block with a piended roof, oriented north-south, with the side elevation facing the street to the south. The west elevation has a Caithness-flagstoned close, and there is a castellated entrance arch on the main (west) elevation. The southern property has a single-storey, square-plan entrance porch. The exterior is harled with deep-set openings.

On the west elevations, the north house has two-leaf, part-glazed boarded doors at the ground level in the central bay, with a window above on the first floor. Each bay on both houses has a window at each floor. The south house features a window in the entrance porch at ground level in the central bay, a modern timber-panelled door on the right side, and a window above on the first floor.

The east elevation, facing East Road, has a tall, extended central wallhead stack and a window at each floor, offset to the outer right. The north elevation, facing the garden, also has a tall, extended central wallhead stack, with a window at each floor, similarly offset to the outer right, and a boarded door with a window flanking a lean-to addition on the outer left.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is traditionally graded stone tiled, with the south side covered in replacement grey slates, featuring a stone ridge, harled corniced extended wallhead and ridge stacks, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by boundary walls, including a low rubble wall to the south, a higher rubble wall marking the property division to the west, and rubble walls surrounding a rectangular-plan garden to the rear (north).