The Stromness Hotel, 15 Victoria Street, Stromness

Samuel Baikie, 1901, with alter alterations and additions. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay L-plan symmetrical Scot's Jacobean-style hotel built on ground rising to W; 3-storey 4-light canted bays flanking advanced canted porch to centre; pepperpot bartizans; crowstepped gablets. Polished cream sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings. Base course; string course between floors, continuous as cornice around canted bays; cill course below canted windows; ball finials to angles of blocking course over canted bays; eyebrow hoodmoulds over attic windows. Stone mullions (and transoms at ground).

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-step stone flight to canted encaustic tiled porch at ground in bay to centre; Doric columns raised on plinths supporting round-arched pediment and entablature with wrought-iron balcony behind; pilastered, roll-moulded and keystoned architraved doorpiece; 2-leaf timber panelled door with large fanlight; window at 1st and 2nd floors; date panel below attic window with round-arched pediment above. 4-light canted bays flanking; bipartite attic window to thistle-finialled gablets above; piended dormer behind gablet to right. Single storey flat-roofed additions with modern door and windows flanking at ground in bays to outer left and right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey and attic 7-bay regularly fenestrated elevation with gabletted attic windows.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-storey and attic 8-bay regularly fenestrated elevation; 2-bay gabled blocks to outer left and right; single storey pitched addition at ground to left of centre.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows; fixed coloured small-pane upper lights to canted bays at ground. Grey slate roof; slate to addition; decorative pierced red clay ridges; red clay ball finials to gablets to rear and side elevations; ashlar and replacement cement skews to rear and side gables; corniced ashlar gablehead and ridge stacks; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: architraved timber panelled doors; timber skirting boards; timber revolving door below etched glass panels to entrance lobby; turned timber banisters and newel posts to central staircase; decorative carved plaster consoles beneath plaster panelled ceiling to lobby; herring bone timber slats lining stairwell ceiling; largely re-fitted to upper floors.

WALLED GARDEN: rectangular-plan rubble walled garden built on rising ground to W (rear). Square-plan fountain set to left (S) of garden comprising carved square plinth supporting anthemion and palmette carved urn within square cement-rendered basin; cement-rendered and lined bases to lean-to greenhouses to W end.