2-4 Dundas Street, Stromness

Late 18th to early 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey with attic and basement, 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical house with 3-bay gabled shop elevation to street, (W), built on ground falling to E; chamfered SE angle at ground. Harl-pointed random rubble (painted cement-rendered and lined at ground to street with cement-rendered and lined margins to openings; band course between ground and 1st floors to W. Eaves course.

S (No 4) ELEVATION: timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking.

W (No 2, SHOP) ELEVATION: stone step to deep-set part-glazed modern door with 2-leaf storm doors at ground in bay to centre. Window at ground in bay to left; window at 1st floor; small attic window above. Window at ground in bay to right. Wide gablehead stack above.

E (SEAWARD) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated with multi-flue gablehead stack above.

Variety of glazing patterns including 12-pane timber sash and case and modern fixed windows to shop. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; rooflights to S pitch; cement-rendered random rubble coped gablehead stacks to E and W; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: refitted shop interior to number 2; number 4 not seen, 1997.

OUTBUILDING: single storey, 3-bay symmetrical lean-to random rubble, rectangular-plan store shed sited to E of main building. Part-glazed modern timber door in bay to centre with fixed small-pane timber-framed windows in each bay flanking; corrugated-iron roof; coped rubble stack to NE angle; uPVC rainwater goods.

QUAY AND SLIPWAY: open-jointed Caithness flagstones to close along S side; grassed quay with flagstone border to E; common rubble-lined slipway flanking.