5 Graham Place, Stromness

3 Graham Place in Stromness is an earlier to mid-19th century building with later alterations. It features two storeys and an attic, arranged in a five-bay rectangular plan that forms an asymmetrical row of three houses with gabled dormers. The structure includes two two-bay houses on the west side and a chamfered three-bay gable facing the street to the east, which contains a shop at ground level. The building is set on rising ground to the west and is adjacent to a two-storey, three-bay house to the west. The exterior is harled, with pointed coursed rubble at the ground level of the gable.

On the south (principal) elevation, the bays are grouped in a 2-2-1 arrangement. The left two-bay group (No 5) has a deep-set part-glazed timber panelled door with a cement architrave in the right bay at ground level, with a window above on the first floor. There is a window in the left bay at each floor and a dormer window above. The central two-bay group (No 3) features a similar deep-set part-glazed timber panelled door with a letterbox fanlight in the right bay at ground level, with a window above on the first floor. Again, there is a window in the left bay at each floor and a dormer window above. The outer right bay contains a large 16-pane window at ground level for the shop.

The east (shop-front) elevation has a part-glazed timber panelled door with a large rectangular fanlight in the central bay at ground level, with a timber fascia reading 'J L Broom, BOOKSELLER' above. There is a shop window at ground level with a window at the first floor in each flanking bay, and an attic window to the left above. The building features a multi-flue gablehead stack.

The windows consist of 4-, 6-, and 12-pane timber sash and case styles, with replacement windows at number 3 and modern single-pane windows at the shop front. The roof is covered in grey slate, with slated dormers, a stone ridge, rooflights on the south pitch of No 1, concrete skews, and harled coped gablehead and ridge stacks. The rainwater goods are made of uPVC. The interior was not seen in 1997.