34 Dundas Street, Stromness

34 Dundas Street in Stromness is an early 19th-century house with later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a symmetrical three-bay rectangular plan. The house is partly attached at the rear to the gable end of 32 Dundas Street and is situated on rising ground to the west. The exterior is harled with cement margins around the openings.

The principal elevation faces east and has a deep-set modern part-glazed timber panelled door located in the central bay at ground level, with a window above it on the first floor. Each of the three bays has a window on both floors flanking the central entrance.

The side elevation to the south has a gabled wall with two bays. It features a window offset to the right, accompanied by a smaller window at ground level, and an attic window in each bay above. There is a gablehead stack.

The rear elevation to the west has a single bay that is set back from the street, with a single first-floor window offset to the left. Adjacent to this window is a part-glazed timber panelled door located in the side wall leading to No 32.

The house has four-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate roof with a stone ridge. There are harled, coped gablehead stacks to the north and south, evenly disposed rooflights, and uPVC rainwater goods.

Inside, there is a central replaced timber stairwell that follows the original layout, with four evenly sized rooms on the first floor above a converted ground floor.

Additionally, there is a quay and slipway made of large, open-jointed Caithness flagstones extending eastward, with a rubble slipway flanking to the north.