22 Main Street, Kirkwall

22 Main Street in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house, which may include some earlier materials, and has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, two-bay rectangular house with its gable end facing the street. The ground floor is painted cement-rendered and lined, while the upper part is harled. There is a base course and a band course between the floors on the north side, along with strip quoins.

On the north elevation facing Main Street, there is a window on each floor in both bays, with a gablehead stack above. The west elevation, which is the entrance side, features a two-bay layout with a part-glazed timber-panelled door in the central bay at ground level, and a window above it on the first floor. There is an enlarged window in the left bay at ground level, with a non-aligned window above on the first floor. The right bay has a window at ground level.

The east elevation at the rear is irregularly fenestrated. The house has replacement four-pane timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. The roof is traditionally stone slated, with a stone ridge and stone skews, as well as harled, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks. The rainwater goods are predominantly made of uPVC. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.