84 Dundas Street, Stromness

84 Dundas Street is a pair of late 18th century houses arranged in an L-plan. The first house, numbered 84, is two storeys with an attic and has an asymmetrical three-bay rectangular shape. It features a crowstepped gable and a gabletted dormer that breaks the eaves. The house is harled with harl-pointed rubble at the rear and has painted cement margins around its openings.

On the south elevation, there is a stone flight leading to a sunken architraved doorway, which is offset to the right of centre and has a part-glazed timber panelled door. The first floor has an enlarged window and a window in the left bay, while the right bay has a ground floor window. The west elevation has three bays, with a window replacing the original door in the centre at ground level, a window in the left bay, and an attic window to the right, with a gablehead stack above. The north elevation is irregularly fenestrated with a cluster of windows at the centre and a blocked doorway to the right of centre. The house features a variety of glazing patterns, including 12-pane timber sash and case windows and 2-pane timber-framed windows with top-hung lights. The roof is made of purple/grey slate with a stone ridge, and there are harled corniced gablehead stacks to the east and west, concrete skews to the gablets, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior of 84 Dundas Street was not seen during the inspection in 1997.

The second house, numbered 86, is also two storeys and has a single bay, but it is two bays at ground level, forming the north-south range of the L-plan block. This house is cement-rendered and lined.

On the west elevation, there is a timber door with a small pane letterbox fanlight offset to the left at ground level, and a window offset to the right. Above, there is a centrally located window on the first floor. It features 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is modern grey slate with a stone ridge, and there is a tall harled corniced gablehead stack to the north, a common ridge stack to the south, a replaced concrete skew to the south, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior of 86 Dundas Street was also not seen during the inspection in 1997.