126 Victoria Street, Stromness

126 Victoria Street in Stromness is an earlier 19th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay (five-bay at ground level) rectangular-plan building with a two-bay gabled west elevation, which has been converted into a shop at the ground floor. It is adjacent to a four-bay house to the east. The exterior is constructed of harl-pointed rubble, with the shop front painted and rendered to give a lined appearance. There is a cornice between the floors on the west side, and the first-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves, with some openings featuring cement margins. The northwest corner has a stop-chamfered angle.

On the north (principal) elevation, the ground floor features a deep-set modern timber panelled door with a large rectangular fanlight located in the bay to the right of centre. There is a window in each bay flanking this door, and to the left, there is a modern two-leaf boarded door with a small-pane fanlight and a flanking window in the outer left bays. Above, on the first floor, there are three evenly spaced windows.

The west (Victoria Street) elevation has a two-bay gabled design. To the left on the ground floor is a tall, two-leaf timber panelled door, and to the right is a shop window. There is a window on the first floor, with a gablehead stack above.

The building predominantly features four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is made of Caithness slate, with a stone ridge, stone skews, and corniced rubble gablehead stacks on both the east and west sides.

The interior was not seen in 1997. To the east, there is a large rectangular-plan quay, partly grassed, paved with Caithness flagstones, and featuring an operational boat derrick dated 1863 at the northeast angle.