31 Albert Street, Kirkwall

31 Albert Street in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century building that incorporates earlier materials and has undergone later alterations. This two-storey, four-bay, symmetrical former house is set back from the street and has been converted into a shop on the ground floor, with offices above. The exterior is harled, featuring plain cement margins around the openings on the first floor, and there is a modern fascia with a cornice course above the two floors.

On the principal elevation, there are three pairs of recessed modern, glazed, two-leaf shop doors at the ground level, flanked by shop windows. The first floor has four evenly spaced windows. The first-floor windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, while the ground floor consists of shop windows. Rooflights are present on the east pitch. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, rendered, coped gablehead stacks on the north and south sides, stone skews, thack stanes, and uPVC rainwater goods.

Inside, the entire ground floor has been converted into a modern shop, specifically Woolworth's, while the upper floors remain unseen.