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Lewis, Stornoway, 4 North Beach
Warehouse (19th Century)
Site Name Lewis, Stornoway, 4 North Beach
Classification Warehouse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Quay Street; Old Sail Loft; Warehouse
Canmore ID 257413
Site Number NB43SW 195
NGR NB 42133 32813
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/257413
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Stornoway
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Publication Account (1997)
On North Beach Quay, is a potentially attractive warehouse (the Fishermen's Cooperative building) figure 20, reminiscent of Stornoway's important fishing and maritime role in the early nineteenth century. Apparently first built with five bays, there is now an addition of a further three; all, however, fit the symmetry of the building, which still retains its central forestair and loft doorway in the five-bay range. Attached and facing east is a dwelling house, also in poor condition but worthy of renovation, since it is one of the few remaining nineteenth-century standing buildings in this central core of the town
Information from ‘Historic Stornoway: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1997).
