47 Albert Street, Kirkwall

47 Albert Street in Kirkwall is an early 19th-century house, possibly incorporating earlier materials, which has undergone later unsympathetic alterations. It is a two-storey, five-bay house with a formerly symmetrical rectangular plan and a steep central pediment. The northeast elevation forms the southeast side of a courtyard alongside Number 45 Albert Street, which is listed separately. The building features a cement-rendered and lined facade facing Albert Street, with roughly coursed rubble on the sides and harl-pointed rubble at the rear. There is a base course on three bays to the left, a cornice course between the floors on two bays to the right, and a corniced eaves course. The openings have plain margins.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, there are modern two-leaf doors with integral shop windows spanning three bays to the left at ground level, a deep-set timber-panelled door with a decorative fanlight in the bay to the right of centre, and a large shop window in the outer right bay. The upper floor is regularly fenestrated.

The northwest (rear) elevation features a pilastered and corniced square-plan entrance porch in the central bay at ground level, with two-leaf timber-panelled storm doors and a decorative fanlight. There is a blocked window in the left return and a tall stair window above on the first floor. A blocked window is found at ground level in the bay to the right, with a window above on the first floor, and a window at each floor in the bay to the left.

The northeast (side) elevation has two windows set close together at ground level to the right of centre, with a window above on the first floor and a multi-flue gablehead stack above.

The southwest (side) elevation adjoins 49 Albert Street, which is not listed. The building features a variety of glazing patterns, including large shop windows at ground level, 4-over-single pane timber sash and case windows on the first floor to the southeast, and 12-pane timber sash and case windows elsewhere. Rooflights are present on the northwest pitch. The roof is covered with grey slate, has a stone ridge, a corniced dressed rubble gablehead stack to the northeast, stone skews, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior has been converted into a shop at ground level to the southeast, with other areas unseen since 1998.