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Latitude: 58.2094 / 58°12'33"N
Longitude: -6.383 / 6°22'58"W
OS Eastings: 142641
OS Northings: 932887
OS Grid: NB426328
Mapcode National: GBR B7M0.WM9
Mapcode Global: WGY2Y.XXNH
Plus Code: 9CCM6J58+QQ
Entry Name: Museum, Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis
Listing Name: Francis Street, Museum (Formerly Free Church Seminary and School Building)
Listing Date: 1 February 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388023
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41689
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Museum nan Eilean
Lewis, Stornoway, Francis Street, Museum
ID on this website: 200388023
Location: Stornoway
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Town: Stornoway
Electoral Ward: Steòrnabhagh a Deas
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure Museum building
Free church seminary, comprising 2 different blocks, both fronting Francis Street.
BLOCK TO LEFT (nearest west) is a single storey with Tudor-arched windows, possibly a church now in re-use. Rubble-built; rendered dressings, resembling red ashlar, possibly a late 19th century addition to what appears to be a mid 19th century building. Slate roofs. Gabled front to street with 3 stepped windows, small-paned glazing, projecting chimney breast on west flank. Gabled jamb at north end of west flank, main roof carried over porch in re-entrant angle; projecting gable on east flank an addition in sympathetic style.
BLOCK TO RIGHT (nearest east) on corner with Matheson Road, long flank wall to Francis Street. 2-storeyed, gabled, imported brown (?Loch Broom) rubble, contrasting detail in concrete. Slate roof. Mullioned windows, 6 close- spaced bipartited at ground, 3-2-3-light windows at 1st floor, each with gabled head rising above eaves and arch detail to window heads. Axial ventilator cut down - only base survives.
All set behind low boundary wall topped with simple, spiked cast-iron railings.
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