24 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall

Circa 1805 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey pair of 3-bay rectangular-plan crowstepped houses with spike-finialled, pitched- roofed entrance porch and canted SW angle to Number 23 and lean-to addition to E gable to Number 24; N elevation abutting Number 21 and 22, (listed separately). Harled with cement margins to some right hand windows to Number 23; long and short cement margins to openings to Number 24.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATIONS: NUMBER 23, (to W): window to entrance porch in bay to centre; low rendered, coped wall flanking path to timber-panelled door in left return. Bipartite window at ground with single window at 1st floor in each bay flanking. NUMBER 24, (to E): deep-set, part-glazed timber-panelled door in bay to centre. Window at each floor in bays flanking. Deep-set boarded door in lean-to addition to outer right.

W (ST CATHERINE'S PLACE) ELEVATION: window, offset to left of centre, to each floor; gablehead stack above.

E ELEVATION: window, set to right, to lean-to elevation spanning bays at ground; gablehead stack above.

Variety of glazing patterns, including 4-pane timber sash and case windows, and replacement timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights to Number 23; timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights to Number 24. Traditional graded stone tiled roofs; grey slate to porch and to addition; stone ridges; stone skews to porch; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIORS; not seen, 1998.

ANCILLARY BUILDING: small single storey, rubble lean-to shed sited to E; boarded doors; traditional stone slated roof; cast-iron rainwater goods.