Stenigar, Ness Road, Stromness

1836, converted 1948, Stanley Cursiter and Robertson & Hendry, with later additional outbuildings. 2-storey, 9-bay T-plan, irregularly fenestrated house with full-height bowed bay to right of centre. Harl-pointed roughly coursed rubble with timber lintels at ground and cills at 1st floor.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: boarded door with 2 flanking lights at ground in bay to centre; tall window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to left and further left; window at ground between. Blocked door at ground in bay to penultimate left; tall window at 1st floor above; window at ground between. Window at each floor in bay to outer left. Full-height bow window with timber fascia between floors in bay to right of centre. Window at each floor in bay to right. Part-glazed door with incorporated flanking lights spanning both bays to outer right. Wide studio window with upper lights incorporated as roof at 1st floor in bay to penultimate right. Window at 1st floor in bay to outer right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated, 8-bay with pitched single bay projection to centre. Wallhead stacks to each side of projection and to outer right.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank, harled gabled wall; gablehead stack above.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled elevation. Part-glazed timber door at ground to centre. Timber forestair to part-glazed timber door at 1st floor to right. Gablehead stack above.

Variety of glazing patterns, predominantly small-pane with top-hung upper lights. Graded Caithness slate roof; stone ridge; concrete skews; corniced rubble stacks; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS: rubble walls with circular-plan rubble piers to E; recent (1990s) pitched rectangular-plan rubble outbuilding to N; similarly dated pitched T-plan rubble outbuilding to E; graded Caithness slates; stone ridges; uPVC rainwater goods.