5-9 Victoria Street, Stromness

Dated 1889 with later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay (5-bay at ground) rectangular-plan asymmetrical Scots Jacobean-style former Masonic Lodge with slightly advanced 2-bay crowstepped gabled block to left, built on ground rising to W (rear). Stugged and snecked red sandstone ashlar with polished and tooled cream ashlar dressings. Base course; string course, continuous as hood moulds over ground and 1st floor openings. Ovolo-moulded reveals to openings; stone mullions to bipartites; long and short margins; long and short quoins.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 2-1. 2-bay group to left: 2-leaf shop door, with storm doors, at ground to left of centre; large rectangular fanlights; picture windows flanking; modern timber door with fanlight to right; blank panels below hood moulds over doors. Bipartite window in each bay at 1st floor. Bordered inscription to gablehead, 'Lodge Mercantile Marine No 453 Constd. Feb 6 1866', with recessed date panel above in finilalled gablehead. Single bay block to right: bipartite at each floor.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated 3-bay elevation with tall window in each bay at 1st floor.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated with stone flight to door at 1st floor to outer right. Small square-headed louvered opening below tall gablehead stack above.

2-pane timber sash and case windows; picture window at ground to left. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; Cavetto-moulded skewputts; corniced ashlar gablehead stacks to N and S; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: re-fitted as shop at ground; timber boarded walls with timber cornice and fitted shelving to main shop space; timber-framed glazed display cabinet/shop counter against S wall; free-standing timber shop figments in space to N.

RAILINGS: fleur-de-lys-headed railings set in ashlar coping to NW angle.