Sandside Harbour

1 Sandside, located at Sandside Harbour, is a harbour constructed around 1830. It features a simple rectangular basin formed by two projecting L-shaped arms, which have higher sea walls on the seaward (east) sides. The structure is made of rubble with tooled rubble dressings, and there is some seaward walling of vertical rubble masonry. The harbour entrance is grooved for a boom and includes remnants of a cast-iron boom-hoist.

Adjacent to the harbour are two dwellings, numbered 1 and 2 Sandside, also dating from around 1830. These are two-storey and attic buildings built against a bank, with access from both the east (harbour side) and west at the first floor. They are constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings, and the west elevation is white-washed. The east elevation has six bays, featuring two doors each with flanking windows, and two small windows on the first floor. The raised ground floor on the west side has a central door with flanking windows in the right bay, and two windows with a projecting lean-to masking the entrance in the left bay. The buildings have two ridge stacks and two end stacks, topped with Caithness slate roofs.

There is also a fishing store, built around the same time, which resembles 1 and 2 Sandside. This two-storey, six-bay rubble building is built into the bank and has a raised white-washed west elevation. The east facade is symmetrical, featuring two ground floor doors each flanked by windows, and four windows close to the wallhead. The raised (west) first floor has two symmetrical doors, with the right door having modern flanking windows added around 1982. The building also has a central ridge and end stacks, with a Caithness slate roof.