What you'll hear inside Earl's Palace, Kirkwall:

• 1
  Great Hall

  The grandest space in the Earl's Palace, its upper floors now open to the sky, yet the quality of the surviving stonework still gives a clear sense of its former splendour.

• 2
  Courtyard

  Once the heart of the 'Palace of the Yards', this open space linked the Earl's and Bishop's Palaces within a shared walled enclosure.

• 3
  Corbelled Turrets

  Among the most distinctive features of the Earl's Palace, these projecting turrets jut out from the first-floor walls of the square wing.

• 4
  Main Entrance Gate

  The main entrance gate to Earl's Palace was conceived as one of the original scheme's "splendid entrances", designed to convey the power and status of its builder.

• 5
  Kitchen

  The kitchen at the Earl's Palace was a substantial chamber designed to service a monumental palatial complex.