17 Rodger Street, Cellardyke

11 Rodger Street in Cellardyke is a pair of 2-storey and attic terraced houses, built in 1877 by builder Thomas Brown. These homes were purpose-built for the local fishing community and include single and 2-storey freestanding fishing gear storage at the rear, ending with a corner shop at the north (No 35). The street-facing elevation features coursed tooled sandstone, while the rear and sides are made of rubble, except for the north elevation of No 35, which has squared and snecked tooled sandstone. The design includes rectangular piended stair projections at the rear, margined window and door openings, and polygonal piended dormers, with pairs of houses stepping at the roofline. There have been some minor alterations and additions.

The east (principal) elevation shows No 1 on the left as a 3-bay 2-storey and attic terraced house, with 10 paired 2-storey and attic terraced tenements to the right, and the corner shop with chamfered margins at the far right. There are slight variations among the properties, particularly in window openings, including a bipartite ground floor window at No 6.

The glazing varies, featuring some 12-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows, with some modern replacements. No 35 has windows with horns. There are modern rooflights, grey slates on the roof, and large gable end and ridge stacks at the division of the paired tenements. The doors are of various types, including some timber 4-panel doors and modern designs, with simple rectangular fanlights above.

Inside, No 3 has been modernised.

To the west, there are 2-storey, 2-bay predominantly terraced rubble-built fishing gear storage sheds that form a courtyard with the tenements, some of which have forestairs on the west elevation. A few loft hatches remain on the east elevation, including one at No 3. The glazing includes some 6-pane fixed lights and there are simple timber boarded doors, with some ridge stacks still present. The roofs are broadly covered with pantiles to the south and slates to the north.

The boundary walls consist of low rubble walls on the east elevation with predominantly flat coping, and high dividing walls that form the sides of the rear courtyards of the properties.