8 Clay Loan, Kirkwall

8 Clay Loan in Kirkwall is an 18th-century house with later alterations. It is a single-storey and attic, three-bay, rectangular-plan, symmetrical end-of-terrace house featuring catslide dormers that break the eaves, crowstepped gables, and a chamfered southwest angle. The house is located at the junction of Victoria Street and Clay Loan, with a similar crowstepped house attached to the rear elevation.

The south elevation has a deep-set, part-glazed timber panelled door at the ground level in the central bay, with a window and a shed dormer above in each of the flanking bays. On the east elevation facing Victoria Street, there is a modern part-glazed door at ground level in the left bay, with an attic window above and a gablehead stack. There is also a window at ground level in the right bay, and a gabled elevation of the similar house to the left.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is made of graded traditional Caithness stone, with a stone ridge and stone on the shed dormers. The east elevation features a harled, corniced gablehead stack, while there is a similar common stack on the west. The property predominantly has cast-iron rainwater goods.