Stenigar, Ness Road, Stromness

Stenigar is a 2-storey, 9-bay T-plan house located on Ness Road in Stromness, originally built in 1836 and converted in 1948 by Stanley Cursiter and Robertson & Hendry. The house features an irregular arrangement of windows and is constructed from harl-pointed, roughly coursed rubble with timber lintels at the ground level and cills on the first floor.

On the principal elevation (east), there is a boarded door with two flanking lights in the central bay, above which is a tall window. To the left of this bay, there is a window on each floor, with an additional window at ground level between them. A blocked door is located in the penultimate left bay, with a tall window above and another window at ground level between. The outer left bay also has a window on each floor. The right of centre features a full-height bowed bay window with a timber fascia between floors, with a window in each floor of the adjacent bay. To the outer right, there is a part-glazed door with flanking lights spanning both bays, and a wide studio window with upper lights incorporated as a roof at the first floor in the penultimate right bay, along with a window in the outer right bay.

The rear elevation (west) is irregularly fenestrated with eight bays and includes a pitched single bay projection at the center, with wallhead stacks on each side of the projection and to the outer right. The south side elevation is a blank, harled gabled wall with a gablehead stack above. The north side elevation features a two-bay gabled section with a part-glazed timber door at ground level in the center, and a timber forestair leading to a part-glazed timber door at the first floor to the right, with a gablehead stack above.

The house has a variety of glazing patterns, mainly small-pane with top-hung upper lights. The roof is covered with graded Caithness slate, featuring stone ridges, concrete skews, and corniced rubble stacks, with predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The property includes boundary walls made of rubble with circular-plan rubble piers to the east, along with recent (1990s) pitched rectangular-plan rubble outbuildings to the north and a similarly dated pitched T-plan rubble outbuilding to the east, all featuring graded Caithness slates, stone ridges, and uPVC rainwater goods.