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Lewis, Stornoway, 16 - 18 Cromwell Street, 'town House'
House (19th Century), Restaurant (20th Century)
Site Name Lewis, Stornoway, 16 - 18 Cromwell Street, 'town House'
Classification House (19th Century), Restaurant (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 28 North Beach
Canmore ID 86683
Site Number NB43SW 23
NGR NB 42319 32834
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/86683
- 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.
NB43SW 23 42319 32834
See also NB43SW 22.
