Stromness Museum, 54 Alfred Street, Stromness

1858, with later alterations and additions. 2-storey 3-bay symmetrical former Town Hall, with classical details; advanced pedimented porch to centre, single storey 2-bay pitch-roofed wing to right (No 54) and flat-roofed rectangular-plan 2-bay porch spanning junction between main block and wing. Base course; band course and cornice between ground and 1st floors; eaves course. Plain margins to openings; plain pilasters between bays at each floor; long and short quoins, chamfered angle at ground to right.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: architraved part-glazed 2-leaf boarded door with rectangular fanlight, inscribed 'MUSEUM' and 2 narrow flanking lights to central pedimented porch; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking. Advanced porch to right: boarded door to right; window to left. Wing to outer right: window, set to right.

W (SIDE, ALFRED STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay gabled wall. Moulded architraved doorway at ground in bay to left of centre; deep-set timber panelled door with large rectangular fanlight; window at 1st floor above. Blocked window at ground in bay to outer left; window at 1st floor above. Window at ground in bay to right; blocked window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to outer right; multi-flue gablehead stack above.

E (SEAFRONT) ELEVATION: gabled wall to main block: lean-to porch with boarded door recessed to centre. Advanced gabled single bay block, with bipartite window, to outer left (No 54); pitched 2-storey 3-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan cottage with single bay, gabled end wall further advanced from right hand bay; regularly fenestrated S elevation, with timber panelled door at ground in bay to centre; window set to right, at each floor in gabled end wall.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated.

3- 4- 7- 8- and 12-pane timber sash and case window; fixed narrow lights flanking door. Purple Welsh slate roof; stone ridge; replacement concrete skews; coped concrete ashlar stacks; moulded cans; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods with some uPVC replacements.

INTERIOR: black and white Encaustic tiled porch; part-glazed timber panelled 2-leaf vestibule doors; architraved timber panelled doors; timber skirting boards; plain cornices.