Lewis, Stornoway, 11 Cromwell Street, Neptune's Bar
Public House (19th Century)
Site Name Lewis, Stornoway, 11 Cromwell Street, Neptune's Bar
Classification Public House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 2 Francis Street; Cromwell's Building
Canmore ID 171287
Site Number NB43SW 59
NGR NB 42344 32818
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/171287
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Stornoway
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Golden Ocean Chinese Restaurant/ Coffee Shop, late 19th century A handsome house on a prominent corner site built for the merchant James Reid, with c.1830s-style external detail in cement work and good plasterwork in the upper rooms. Still often referred to as the Town House, it stands on the site of the former tolbooth. The shaped wallhead gablet is echoed elsewhere in Cromwell Street, see Nos 59-63 dated 1886, a commercial premises with neo-Jacobean touches. Other buildings with presence and good detailing include McNeills (formerly Cromwell's Building), c.1825, on the site of the short-lived market square, with rusticated detailing similar to Amity House.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Publication Account (1997)
Cromwell's Building on the corner of Cromwell Street and Francis Street has first-floor window lintels and decoration reminiscent of Amity House figure 19, built in 1820 x 1840 (seep 62), but its wall-head gable with attic window rather suggests a late eighteenth century construction.
Information from ‘Historic Stornoway: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1997).
