33 Bridge Street, Kirkwall

Possibly late 17th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay near-symmetrical rectangular-plan crowstepped-gabled house, (Number 33) with later, lower single bay piended addition to left (S), adjoining single storey, single bay former house (Number 31) with crowstepped gable to N. Number 33: cement rendered at ground; harled at 1st floor and to rear. Base course; band course between floors. Plain margins to openings at ground; block cills to 1st floor windows. Number 31: cement rendered. Base course. Painted margin to window at ground, stone mullions to window at 1st floor.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Number 33: deep-set, modern shop door at ground in bay to left of centre. Window at each floor in bay to centre and to flanking bays to left and right. 2 windows, set close in bay to outer left; window at 1st floor above. Number 31: large shop window at ground; tripartite window at 1st floor above.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: Number 33: 4-bay: forestair to boarded door at 1st floor in bay to left of centre. window at 1st floor in bay to outer left. Window in each bay to right. Number 31: full-height, pitched-roofed addition in bay to right with window at 1st floor; boarded door at ground in right return; timber forestair to boarded door at 1st floor above. Lower L-plan lean-to addition to left.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: Number 33: piended addition at ground: narrow, blank slightly advanced full height bay to centre; narrow window in bay to right. Window set to right of gable to main block at 1st floor; gablehead stack above.

Modern shop windows at ground; 4- and 2-pane timber sash and case windows above; lying pane window at 1st floor to addition to Number 33. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead stacks to N and S; red clay cans; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: converted as modern shop at ground; unseen above, 1998.