28 Victoria Street, Stromness

Early 19th century, renovated 1978, Kate Heron with Levitt Bernstein Associates. 2-storey 11-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical former warehouse, converted to gallery with forestair to each gabled (E and W) end, sited to S of large rectangular-plan quay, behind Victoria Street. Pointed roughly coursed rubble with some flagstone cills and lintels.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 7-4. Slightly advanced 4-bay group to right (W): modern glazed 2-leaf door at ground to outer left; small window at 1st floor above. Timber panelled door with narrow 2-light fanlight at ground in bay to right of centre, with window in each bay flanking; small window at 1st floor above. 7-bay group to left (E): deep-set boarded door at ground to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at ground in bay to right. Window at 1st floor in bay to penultimate right. Large window, breaking eaves in bay to outer right. Window at ground in bay to left. Deep-set door at ground in bay to penultimate left. Window at each floor in bay to outer left.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: concrete forestair with steel handrail to glazed door, offset to right at 1st floor; gablehead stack above.

E (SEAWARD) ELEVATION: concrete forestair with steel handrail to glazed door, offset to left at 1st floor; boarded door beneath stair.

Predominantly modern fixed single pane timber-framed windows. Old Orkney grey slate roof; stone ridge; corniced rubble gablehead stack to W; thackstanes; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: re-fitted as gallery on both floors; 2 rectangular-plan galleries at ground; terracotta tiles to floor; painted exposed joists; timber staircase with plain timber banisters and handrail; single gallery along entire length of building at 1st floor; perspex display cases inserted into some half-partition walls and into wall projections.

QUAY: Caithness flagstones to rectangular-plan quay with stone steps to N boundary.