Cottage, 10 South End, Stromness

This building is a cottage located at 10 South End in Stromness, dating from around 1800 with later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey and attic structure, featuring a rectangular plan with three bays, and includes back-to-back cottages with single-storey pitch-roofed and lean-to additions to the east. The northern elevation (No 10) is cement-rendered and lined, while the southern elevation (No 12) is harled, with painted cement margins around the openings. Both sides have gabletted dormers facing south.

On the northern elevation (No 10), there are three bays with an addition to the left. The central bay has an architraved timber panelled door flanked by blocked narrow lights at ground level, with a window above on the first floor. Each of the flanking bays has a window on both floors. The left addition features a boarded door with a fanlight in the central bay, with pointed-arched windows on either side.

The southern elevation (No 12) has a part-glazed timber panelled door with a blocked fanlight in the central bay at ground level, and a window above on the first floor. Each floor has a window, with a dormer window breaking the eaves above. To the right, there is a single bay addition with a central window, and a timber-framed, flat-roofed glazed conservatory on the outer right.

The western elevation is a three-bay M-gabled facade, with a window in each bay at ground level and a small attic window set wide in each gable, topped with gablehead stacks.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case. The roofing materials include purple Welsh slate for No 12, stone tiles for the northern addition, and grey slate for the remainder, with stone ridges, ashlar skews, corniced harled gablehead stacks, and uPVC rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen as of 1997.

Additionally, there is a slipway and quay made of Caithness slabs over a square-plan rubble quay to the east, with a rubble slipway flanking the northern side.