The Manse, 5 Manse Lane, Stromness

The Manse, located at 5 Manse Lane in Stromness, is a late 19th-century manse that has undergone later alterations. This two-storey, three-bay building features a symmetrical rectangular plan, with full-height three-light canted bays on either side and a piended porch at the rear. The exterior is cement-rendered, with sandstone ashlar used for the canted bays. It has a base course and a cill course at each floor level of the canted bays, and the windows have ovolo moulded chamfered reveals. The corners of the building are accentuated with long and short quoins.

On the principal elevation (east), there is a pilastered and corniced doorpiece at the ground level in the central bay, featuring a deep-set modern timber door with a rectangular fanlight above, along with a window at the first floor. Each of the flanking bays has a window on both floors.

The rear elevation (west) displays irregular fenestration, with a tall stair window in the center and a rectangular-plan porch to the right of center, which has a boarded door on its left return.

The south side elevation consists of a blank gabled wall with a gablehead stack above. The north side elevation has a single bay gabled wall, with a window on each floor to the right and a gablehead stack above.

The windows throughout the building are two-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with purple Welsh slate, featuring a stone ridge and slate on the addition. There are three evenly spaced rooflights on the east pitch, concrete skews, and corniced cement-rendered and lined gablehead stacks on the north and south sides. The rainwater goods are made of uPVC.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1997.

The property is enclosed by boundary walls, which include a harl-pointed wall surrounding a rectangular-plan garden to the east, topped with a flat concrete cope. Tall, square-plan corniced piers flank a boarded, pedimented gateway to the south. There is also a low rubble wall with a ridged concrete cope along the eastern front of the house within the garden, with evidence of missing railings.

To the north of the main house, there is an outbuilding, which is a harl-pointed rubble single-storey structure that has been converted into a garage. It features a sliding door on the south side and a boarded door with small flanking windows on the east elevation. The outbuilding has a graded Caithness slate roof, a stone ridge, uPVC rainwater goods, and exposed rafters inside.