Stromness Public Library, 2 Hellihole Road, Stromness

Dated 1905. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical plain rectangular-plan library with Tudor-gothic details; gabletted 1st floor windows; built on ground rising to W. Harled with polished sandstone ashlar dressings. Hood moulds over windows; stone mullions and cills; ball-finialled gablets.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone step to 2-leaf, architraved timber panelled door with rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to centre; part-glazed timber panelled 2-leaf vestibule doors; window, hugging eaves, at 1st floor above. Bipartite window at each floor in each bay flanking.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay, gabled wall. Window at each floor in each bay. Consoled commemorative plaque set between 1st floor windows, beneath corbelled stack to gable.

2-pane timber sash and case windows with stained glass small-pane top lights. Grey slate roof; decorative pierced red clay ridge; red clay finials; concrete skews; harled, coped gablehead stacks to E and W; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and hoppers.

INTERIOR: open-plan interior at ground with timber reception desk to centre; boarded dado in entrance hall and up stairs; turned timber newel posts with large ball finials; turned timber banisters; timber handrails; architraved timber panelled doors; converted as art gallery at 1st floor; cornices and timber skirting boards extant throughout.