1 Franklin Road, Stromness

1 Franklin Road in Stromness is a late 19th-century house that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey, three-bay, L-plan symmetrical house featuring three-light canted windows at the ground level, which are located in advanced gabled bays flanking a later classical entrance porch. The house is built on a raised terrace and constructed from squared and snecked rubble with cement-rendered dressings. Notable architectural details include a base course, a cornice and blocking course above the canted windows, hood moulds over the first-floor windows, plain timber bargeboards with timber apex pendants, overhanging eaves, decorative wrought-iron gable finials, and long and short quoins. There is also a pitch-roofed, cement-rendered, and lined rectangular-plan shed to the north.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, there is a low coped wall with short pyramidal-capped pier terminals flanking a stone flight leading to a central door. Banded pilasters support a shallow pediment over a timber panelled door and fanlight at the advanced porch in the central bay. Above this, a gabled window breaks the eaves. Each advanced bay features a canted window at the ground level and a bipartite window above on the first floor.

The northwest (rear) elevation has a three-bay, M-gabled design. It includes a single-storey, flat-roofed porch in the central bay with a stair light flanking to the left, and a window in the first-floor bay to the right. An advanced pitched single-storey wing projects from the left bay.

The windows are two-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate, while the outbuilding also has slate roofing and the flat-roofed porch at the rear is covered with asbestos. The house features stone ridges, corniced rubble ridge stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods, although some have been replaced with uPVC.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The property is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall with cement-rendered and lined corniced square-plan piers flanking a pedimented timber panelled door located to the east.