36-38 Dundas Street, Stromness

36-38 Dundas Street is a mid to later 19th century house with later alterations. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a near-symmetrical design with three bays and a gable end facing the street. It is adjacent to a two-storey house (No 40) to the east. The ground level has modern dry-dash render, while the upper part and the south side are cement-rendered and lined, and the north side is harled. The building is situated on a slope that falls to the east. The openings on the west side have plain concrete surrounds.

On the west elevation, there is a deep-set, part-glazed door with a large rectangular fanlight in the central bay. Large shop windows flank this door, and there is an attic window offset to the left above. A wide gablehead stack is positioned above.

The south elevation is irregular and also has three bays. There is a deep-set door in the central bay, with a window in the outer right bay at each floor. The outer left bay has a small window at ground level, with a non-aligned window above it on the first floor.

The north elevation features a single window offset to the left of centre and a small boarded coal store door at street level to the outer right.

The building has fixed shop windows on the west side, with two-pane timber sash and case windows, and rooflights on the south pitch. The roof is covered with graded Caithness slate, featuring a stone ridge, coped skews, and a crowstepped mutual skew with No 40. The west gablehead stack is corniced, cement-rendered, and lined, while the mutual ridge stack to the east is also corniced and cement-rendered. The building has uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1997.