Patrick Traill's House, 43 Albert Street, Kirkwall

Patrick Traill's House, located at 43 Albert Street in Kirkwall, is an early 18th-century, two-storey and attic, five-bay house with a near symmetrical rectangular plan and crowstepped gables. It is connected to another house, also numbered 43 and listed separately, forming an L-plan on the northwest and southwest sides of a courtyard that opens onto Albert Street. The building is constructed of roughly squared, harl-pointed rubble with painted sandstone dressings and has plain margins around its openings.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, there is a two-leaf, part-glazed timber panelled door at ground level in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. To the right, there is a window at both the ground and first floors, and to the outer right, there is a window on each floor. The left bay has a blocked window at ground level and a window above it on the first floor, with a window at each floor in the outer left bay.

The northeast (Albert Street) elevation features two bays. There is a blocked window at ground level in the left bay, while each remaining bay has a window on both floors, and there is a gablehead stack above.

The northwest (rear/side) elevation is irregular and consists of four bays, with a two-bay, crowstepped gabled block on the outer right and a single-storey screen wall to the outer right. The two-bay block on the left has a deep-set boarded door at ground level in the central bay, with a window on the right side at each floor and a window at both the ground and first floors in the left bay. The two-bay gabled block on the right has a bipartite window at ground level in the left bay and a window on the first floor, with a window at ground level in the right bay, an attic window above, and a gablehead stack. There is a single window in the screen wall to the outer right.

The house features predominantly four-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with a stone ridge, stone skews, a thack stane, a rubble coped gablehead stack to the northwest, a harled, corniced gablehead stack to the northeast, and predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by low sandstone boundary walls along Albert Street, which define the courtyard.