Voresheed, Berstane Road, Kirkwall

Voresheed is an earlier to mid-19th century house with later alterations, situated on Berstane Road in Kirkwall. It is a 2-storey, 3-bay, square-plan house in a plain classical style, with a piended roof topped by a ball-finial. A porch with a shaped gable and a pitched roof is centrally positioned. Ancillary structures to the rear (northeast) form a rectangular courtyard.

The principal (southwest) elevation features a window within the porch at ground floor, a timber panelled door in the left return, and a window above the door at the first floor. There are windows at each floor in each of the flanking bays. The northwest side elevation has a window at each floor in each bay. The rear (northeast) elevation incorporates a single-storey, lean-to projection with a window at ground floor, a tall stair window above, a two-leaf boarded door to a gabled entrance to the right, and a full-height ancillary range projecting to the left.

The house is constructed of squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, including a base course and long and short quoins to the porch. Most windows are 2-pane timber sash and case, with 12-pane windows in the porch and the lean-to projection at the rear, which has an externally double-glazed stair window. The roof is grey slate, with paired corniced rubble stacks and cylindrical cans. Rainwater goods are predominantly uPVC. The interior was not inspected in 1998.

The ancillary structures include a roofless, 2-bay range to the southeast, divided internally, with a boarded door in the right bay of its northwest elevation and a square-headed doorway in the left bay. A crowstepped range to the northwest has an irregular five-bay facade on its courtyard elevation with boarded doors and small-pane fanlights on the ground floor. There is a window above the central door, a window to the far left, and windows at each floor to the right of centre. A sliding boarded door is located to the far right. The northwest range has a louvered opening at first floor, and the southeast range has a modern grey slate roof. The interiors of the ancillary structures were not inspected in 1998.

Rubble boundary walls run along the southwest boundary, with square-plan coursed rubble gatepiers topped with urn finials and fleur-de-lys-headed shafts supporting a single cast-iron gate.