Sule Skerry Lighthouse Station, 15 Ness Road, Stromness

Dated 1892 with later alterations. 2-storey, 7-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical former lighthouse shore station including flanking single storey flat-roofed wings, pitched timber entrance porch and M-gabled, crowstepped side elevations, built on raised ground. Painted harl. Base course; cill course to 1st floor windows; eaves course; modillioned cornice. Painted long and short ashlar margins; long and short quoins.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 1-5-1. Pitch-roofed, finialled porch with round arch to gablet, supported by square columns at ground in bay to centre; 2-leaf part glazed boarded doors; date to lintel; carved and painted lighthouse scene below round arch above; window at 1st floor; 2 wallhead stacks flanking window above. Window at each floor in bays flanking. Boarded door in each flanking wing.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 windows set close at centre in advanced single storey wing; window set between gables at 1st floor; gablehead stack to each gable above.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: window to centre of wing at ground; window set between gables at 1st floor; gablehead stack to each gable above.

4-pane timber sash and case windows with some uPVC glazing. Grey slate roof; red clay ridge; coped ashlar stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: harl-pointed rubble walls to E; ridged ashlar cope; stop chamfered square-plan ashlar sandstone piers with trefoil-incised round-arched caps.