Ogalby, Outertown Road, Stromness

Ogalby is a Baronial villa dated 1894, with later alterations and additions. It is two storeys and an attic, arranged as a five-bay asymmetrical L-plan, featuring crowstepped gables, a conical-roofed corbelled turret to the right of the centre, a lean-to greenhouse to the left, and a single-storey, two-bay block to the outer right. The exterior is cement-rendered, with polished ashlar dressings. A base course, a cill course, a cornice, and a blocking course define the 4-light canted bay on the left. Windows have chamfered reveals and mullions, and the gables are topped with ball finials. A pitch-roofed garage is situated to the west.

The south elevation, which is the principal facade, features a slightly projecting, ovolo-moulded architraved doorpiece with a consoled cornice and blocking course in a gabled bay at the centre. The door is timber-panelled and has a rectangular fanlight inscribed 'OGALBY'. A window is located above the door at the first floor. A window is present in the turret angle to the right, complemented by a ball finial and remnants of a weather vane. A tripartite window sits in the bay set back to the right of the centre, and a bipartite window is positioned below the gable at the first floor. Three-light windows are found in each bay to the outer right, while a 4-light canted bay extends from the ground to the left of the centre, with a bipartite window above and a small window in the gablehead.

The west elevation, a three-bay arrangement, incorporates a lean-to greenhouse spanning the wall to the right, with a cement-rendered base and timber superstructure. A shouldered tall wallhead stack sits above. First-floor windows are present in each bay to the left of the centre, with various additions on the outer left.

The building has 2-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with purple Welsh slate, featuring a stone ridge, fish scale slates to the turret, concrete skews to the single-storey block, corniced cement-rendered and lined stacks to the east, west, and north, and predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative attachments and hoppers.

Inside, the vestibule showcases encaustic tiled flooring and a part-glazed timber panelled vestibule door with a rectangular fanlight, inscribed 'OGALBY'. The remainder of the interior was not inspected in 1997.

Gate piers with stepped copes, and heavily re-pointed rubble boundary walls with a rubble coping enclose a rectangular, slightly sunken front garden to the south of the main house. A rubble-walled garden, with concrete blocks forming battlements, sits to the west of the house.