69-73 Victoria Street, Stromness

69-73 Victoria Street in Stromness is a former hotel built in the earlier to mid-19th century, with later alterations. The building is three stories tall and has four bays on the front, expanding to seven bays at ground level, and is designed in an L-shape that is nearly symmetrical. It is constructed with harled walls, and the north side and rear feature coursed, pointed rubble. There is a band cill course for the first-floor windows and an eaves course. The ground floor openings have cement margins, and there are strip quoins at the ground level.

On the east (principal) elevation, the ground floor features a central doorpiece that is cement-rendered and lined, with an architrave and cornice. This includes a deep-set timber panelled door with a small-pane fanlight. To the left, there is another timber panelled door with a small-pane fanlight, flanked by two windows. To the right, there is a window in each bay, with a timber panelled door and small-pane fanlight at the outer right. Each bay above has a window.

The south (side) elevation has three bays on the ground floor, featuring a round-arched doorpiece in the left bay of the centre. This includes a timber panelled door with a decorative round-arched fanlight, with a window in each flanking bay. Each bay above has a window.

The north (side) elevation is a single bay with a window set wide to the right on the first and second floors.

The west (rear/internal) elevation has regular fenestration and includes a single-storey lean-to addition with a corrugated iron roof at the internal angle.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is made of purple and grey slate, with stone ridges, ashlar skews, and a corniced rubble multi-flue gablehead stack on the west side, as well as a multi-flue ridge stack on the north side. The rainwater goods are made of uPVC.

The interior was not seen in 1997, and the property currently stands empty. There is also a single-storey triangular-plan rubble outbuilding to the west, which has two boarded doors with a window flanking each on the north elevation, and coped wallheads, though the roof material is not visible.