Architecture Notes

Event ID 864028

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office.

House built on Stornoway Quay. Advertisement and letter concerning its sale.

1821 GD 46/17/58

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Amity House (originally known as Esplanade House), Quay Street, c.1830 A neat, Georgian villa with Doric portico, similar shallow bow-fronted tripartite windows as those to the Lewis and Commercial Hotels, and good internal plasterwork. Originally the factor's house, now the Stornoway Pier and Harbour Commission's HQ, old prints confirm that this was a principal landmark on the waterfront before Esplanade Quay and subsequent harbour-related developments substantially altered its setting.

'Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide', Mary Miers, 2008.

Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk.