North Ronaldsay, Lurand

North Ronaldsay, Lurand is a traditional Orkney cottage dating from the later to late 19th century, with some later alterations. It is a single-storey, three-bay, L-plan structure that features a barn and byre range at the rear, with the remains of a 'boat' store to the west. The building is constructed from random rubble with some harl-pointing, and there are drystone outbuildings nearby.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a boarded door with a small-pane letterbox fanlight in the central bay, flanked by a window in each of the side bays. The north elevation at the rear has a window, offset to the left, in a short gabled projection. To the right is a blank gabled wall of the byre, with a boarded door in a lean-to structure.

On the west side elevation, there is a window, offset to the left, in the gabled wall of the main cottage, with a gablehead stack above. This elevation also includes a projecting range with three components, featuring a higher central block. A lean-to spans the west elevation, with a centered door and two small windows flanking it, along with a doorway in the right return.

The east side elevation has a window offset to the right in the gabled wall of the main cottage, with a gablehead stack above. There is also a window in a short projection to the right, a boarded door with a window flanking it in the central block of the long projection, and another boarded door to the outer right.

The cottage predominantly features four-pane timber sash and case windows, with small rooflights on the south pitch. The roof of the cottage is made of graded purple slate, while the short projecting and lower blocks of the long projections have flagstone roofs. The central block of the long projection has a modern felt roof. The building has stone ridges, coped skews, and corniced, rubble gablehead stacks.

The interior of the cottage was not seen in 1998, but it is noted to have exposed rafters and tie beams in the central barn. The 'boat' store has drystone rubble walls with a stone cope, forming a small store shaped like a boat; it formerly had an upturned boat as a roof, which is now gone.

Surrounding the cottage is a rectangular-plan garden enclosed by drystone rubble boundary walls to the south.