59 Albert Street, Kirkwall

Late 18th century; single storey shops built out at ground, added early 19th century. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay double tenement block set back from main street, with central pend, 3, evenly disposed gabled dormers, and 2, 3-storey crowstepped wings at right angles to rear, forming U-plan, flanking pend. Harled with plain cement margins; cement-rendered, lined and painted shops at ground; rubble wing to left at rear; harled wing to right at rear. Eaves course; corniced pediment to central dormer.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: irregular, 8-bay at ground: central pend. 4-bay shop to right: part-glazed timber panelled door with blocked rectangular fanlight in penultimate bay to right; window in each bay remaining. 3-bay shop to left: modern part-glazed door with rectangular fanlight in bay to centre; window in each bay flanking. Window in each bay at 1st floor (2 windows to right larger). Window to each gabled dormer, evenly disposed above.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey, 2-bay gabled, crowstepped wings flanking pend to rear. Modern projection from ground to left wing; window at each floor above. Window at each floor in each bay to right wing; gablehead stack above.

Modern shop windows at ground; 12-pane timber sash and case windows at 1st floor and to left wing at rear; 4-pane timber sash and case windows to dormers; modern timber-framed windows to right wing at rear. Modern grey slate roof to main block; traditional grey slate to rear wings; stone ridge; stone skews; cavetto moulded skewputt to NE angle; harled and corniced gablehead stacks to N and S elevations; ridged cylindrical cans; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: modern shop interiors at ground; unseen above, 1998.