46, 48 Dundas Street, Stromness

The building at 46 and 48 Dundas Street in Stromness is a late 18th to early 19th century slipway house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey and attic structure with a symmetrical rectangular plan and gable ends, set on a slope that falls to the east. The exterior is made of roughly coursed rubble with harl-pointed finish and features cement cills at the first floor.

On the west elevation facing Dundas Street, there is a modern timber door with a letterbox fanlight at the center. Former shop windows are located in each flanking bay at ground level, with single windows above and an attic window in each bay. A gablehead stack is present.

The south elevation is irregularly fenestrated and consists of four bays. It features a part-glazed timber panelled door with a rectangular fanlight in the bay to the right of center, with a window above it at the first floor. There is also a window at ground level in the left bay and another window at the first floor in the outer left bay, along with a small window at ground level in the right bay.

The east elevation, which faces the sea, has a single bay gabled wall with a window at each floor, including the attic, offset to the right. A gablehead stack is situated above.

The building has modern uPVC windows, while the former shop windows at ground level on the west elevation are timber-framed. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, rooflights on the south pitch, concrete skews, cavetto-moulded skewputts, and coped rubble gablehead stacks on both the east and west sides. The rainwater goods are predominantly uPVC.

The boundary wall and slipway consist of a low coped rubble wall with a square-plan pier terminating to the west along the south elevation. There are steps leading to a rubble-walled garden, which was formerly a quay to the east, along with a broken concrete slipway on the south flank.