24 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall

24 St Catherine's Place in Kirkwall is a pair of two-storey, three-bay houses built around 1805, with later alterations and additions. The houses have a rectangular plan and feature crowstepped gables. Number 23 has a pitched-roof entrance porch topped with a spike finial and a canted southwest angle, while Number 24 has a lean-to addition on its eastern gable. The north elevation is adjacent to Numbers 21 and 22, which are listed separately. The exterior is harled, with some right-hand windows on Number 23 having cement margins, and Number 24 featuring long and short cement margins around its openings.

On the south elevation, Number 23 has a window in the centre of the entrance porch and a low rendered wall flanking the path leading to a timber-panelled door on the left. Each bay has a bipartite window at ground level and a single window on the first floor. Number 24 features a deep-set, part-glazed timber-panelled door in the centre bay, with windows in each flanking bay on both floors. There is also a deep-set boarded door in the lean-to addition on the outer right.

The west elevation facing St Catherine's Place has a window offset to the left of centre on each floor, with a gablehead stack above. The east elevation has a window set to the right of the lean-to, which spans the ground bays, and a gablehead stack above.

The houses exhibit a variety of glazing patterns, including four-pane timber sash and case windows, as well as replacement timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights in Number 23. Number 24 has timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. The roofs are traditionally covered with graded stone tiles, grey slate on the porch and addition, with stone ridges and skews on the porch, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1998. There is also a small single-storey rubble lean-to shed to the east, featuring boarded doors, a traditional stone slated roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods.