Victoria House, Back Road, Stromness

Victoria House is a late 19th-century, two-storey house with an attic, designed in an L-shape and symmetrically arranged. It is situated on a terrace that rises to the west from the road and features a cement-rendered and lined exterior.

The principal elevation faces east and includes a boarded door with a rectangular fanlight located in the central bay at ground level, with a window above it on the first floor. There are additional windows in each of the flanking bays, which also have piend-roofed canted three-light dormers above.

On the south side elevation, there is a gabled wall with a window on each floor positioned to the right, topped by a multi-flue gablehead stack. The north side elevation mirrors this with a gabled wall that has a stair window on the left and a similar multi-flue gablehead stack above. The rear elevation, facing west, is three bays wide and features a grouped arrangement of windows. A timber panelled door is set to the right of an advanced gabled bay on the outer left, with a gablehead stack above and a narrow light to the right return. There is also a narrow light close to the re-entrant angle in the center and a window in the bay to the right.

The house predominantly has eight-pane timber sash and case windows, with four-pane timber sash and case windows in the dormers. There is a fixed timber-framed stair window and a flush two-pane roof light in the center of the east pitch. The roof is covered with purple Welsh slate, featuring a stone ridge, concrete skews, and coped cement-rendered and lined stacks. The rainwater goods are primarily uPVC, with some cast-iron downpipes at the rear.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997. The boundary walls include a coursed rubble wall to the east at road level and a cement-rendered wall with decorative cast-iron railings at the rear.