Stable And Byre, Grainbank, Ayre Road, Kirkwall

Dated 1829. 2-storey over basement, 3-bay, near-symmetrical square-plan piend-roofed villa with central clustered stacks, pitch-roofed entrance porch to W, L-plan ancillary range abutting to N; walled garden to S. Squared and snecked rubble with polished sand droved ashlar sandstone dressings. Band course between basement and ground floor; eaves course. Long and short margins to openings; stone canopies over taller ground floor windows; long and short quoins with raised angle.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: window to central entrance porch; blocked window in right return; timber-panelled door with small-pane fanlight in left return; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: window at each floor in bays to centre and left. Window at basement in recessed bay to right; bracketed balcony across bay to window at ground; window at 1st floor beneath bracketed eaves.

E ELEVATION: window at each floor in each bay; (central window at ground blocked).

N (REAR) ELEVATION: ancillary range projecting from bay to left, with timber-panelled door to lean-to entrance porch to internal angle; 2 small window to right return; central window, partially obscured by projection at 1st floor above. Window at ground with blocked window at 1st floor in bay to right.

Lying-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; coped ashlar central cluster of stacks; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

ANCILLARY RANGE: single storey and attic L-plan COACH-HOUSE range projecting N from main block; harl-pointed rubble with squared rubble and sandstone ashlar dressings. Further harled, detached L-plan STABLE AND BYRE (circa 1715) to N end.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: depressed-arched doorway (cart entrance) with 2-leaf boarded doors at ground in bay to centre; attic window above. Window at ground in bay to penultimate right. Lean-to entrance porch at ground in bay to outer right, abutting main house; attic window above. Boarded door with 2-pane fanlight at ground in bay to left; round-arched boarded hay-loft door with pitch-roof, breaking eaves above. Window at ground in bay to penultimate left. 2-leaf sliding doors to advanced gabled bay to outer left; ogee doocot entrance hole and flight ledge below date panel '1829' to gable above.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated with alternating key-hole slit and blocked pointed arched openings at ground.

Fixed and sash and case timber windows; lying pane windows to rear. grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; tall rubble ridge stack; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR; not seen, 1998.

WALLED GARDEN: rubble walls enclosing roughly rectangular-plan garden with convex curved N wall; lean-to rubble shed to SW angle; traditional stone slated roof.