2-4 Dundas Street, Stromness

2-4 Dundas Street in Stromness is a house dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, with later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey building with an attic and basement, featuring a symmetrical three-bay rectangular plan and a three-bay gabled shop front facing the street to the west. The structure is built on ground that slopes to the east, with a chamfered southeast angle at the ground level. The exterior is finished in harl-pointed random rubble, which is painted cement-rendered and lined at the ground level to the street, with cement-rendered and lined margins around the openings. There is a band course between the ground and first floors on the west elevation, along with an eaves course.

On the south elevation (No 4), there is a timber-panelled door with a letterbox fanlight at ground level in the central bay, with a window above on the first floor. Each of the flanking bays has a window on both floors.

The west elevation (No 2, shop) features a stone step leading to a deep-set part-glazed modern door with two-leaf storm doors in the central bay at ground level. There is a window in the left bay at ground level, a window on the first floor, and a small attic window above. The right bay also has a window at ground level. A wide gablehead stack is located above.

The east (seaward) elevation is irregularly fenestrated and has a multi-flue gablehead stack above. The building exhibits a variety of glazing patterns, including 12-pane timber sash and case windows as well as modern fixed windows in the shop. The roof is covered in grey slate with a stone ridge, rooflights on the south pitch, and cement-rendered random rubble coped gablehead stacks on the east and west sides. It also features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior of number 2 has been refitted for shop use, while number 4 was not seen in 1997.

There is a single-storey, three-bay symmetrical lean-to store shed made of random rubble located to the east of the main building. It has a part-glazed modern timber door in the central bay, with fixed small-pane timber-framed windows in each of the flanking bays. The shed has a corrugated-iron roof and a coped rubble stack at the northeast angle, along with uPVC rainwater goods.

The quay and slipway feature open-jointed Caithness flagstones along the south side, with a grassed quay bordered by flagstones to the east, and a common rubble-lined slipway alongside.