Smithy, South Ronaldsay

1. Single storey, 3-bay symmetrical house with lower, single storey, 2-bay working smithy to left with further single storey, single bay, lean-to store to outer left; various projections from right. Late 19th century/early 20th century single storey, 5-bay barn to NE of house with lean-to; Early 20th century single storey barn with hay loft to E. Harl-pointed random rubble.

PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: HOUSE: central boarded door with letterbox fanlight. Window in each bay flanking. SMITHY: boarded stable door in bay to right; window in bay to left; small window between. STORE: 2-leaf boarded doors set top right.

BARN TO NE: door to left with flanking windows (possible former door to right window). Door to far right. 2-leaf boarded door to lean-to.

BARN TO E: full-length boarded door to central W elevation; 1st floor loft window to right. 1st floor loft window to left in S gable; central gable apex window.

4-pane timber sash and case windows to house; 2, evenly disposed rooflights to principal pitch; 2-pane timber-framed window to Smithy; 6-pane at rear. Traditional graded stone tiled roof to house; massive Caithness stone slabbed roof to Smithy; remaining roof material unseen; corniced, rubble gablehead stacks to house; similar gablehead stack to Smithy; cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched roof to NE barn; corrugated asbestos. Pitched roof to N barn; graded stone tiles.

INTERIORS: house; 2-up-2-down arrangement with central timber staircase. Downstairs: flag floors; exterior walls plastered on the hard, internal partitions timber framed and boarded; open-beamed ceilings; stone sink and mains-fed cold water tap; 'Columbian' stove (circa 1900) in west room, 1950s open fire-place in east room. Upstairs: boarded ceilings and coombs, exterior walls plastered on the hard, internal partitions timber framed and boarded. Smithy: wide, open, coal-fired furnace to gabled wall with angled stone flag hood/lintel.