Lyness House, 10 Graham Place, 8, Stromness

Lyness House, located at 10 Graham Place in Stromness, was built around 1897 and has undergone some later alterations. It is a two-storey, five-bay T-plan asymmetrical house that forms the eastern side of a small square. The exterior is made of harl-pointed rubble with sandstone ashlar and cement-rendered, lined margins around the openings. The windows are positioned close to the eaves on the first floor, which features an eaves course.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is a modern, part-glazed timber door with a large rectangular fanlight located in the bay to the left of the center, with a window above it on the first floor. There is a window in each floor of the outer left bay, and a bipartite window on the first floor in the central bay. A blocked doorway is present at ground level in the bay to the right, with a window above it on the first floor, and another window at ground level in the outer right bay.

The north and south side elevations are blank gabled walls that feature gablehead stacks. The east (rear) elevation consists of three bays, with an advanced blank gabled bay that has a gablehead stack in the center. There is a window on each floor in the left return, and a single-storey lean-to addition in the bay to the right, which includes a window on each floor and a part-glazed timber door with a fanlight in the left flank of the bay.

The windows throughout the house are 12- and 2-pane timber sash and case. The roof has been replaced with grey slate, featuring a stone ridge, slate on the addition, concrete skews, corniced rubble gablehead stacks, thackstanes, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997. The boundary walls consist of low ashlar coped rubble walls along the west (principal) elevation, with a pyramidal capped low pier at the southwest angle.