Mission, 5 North Beach, Stornoway, Lewis

4 North Beach in Stornoway, Lewis, is a large dockside warehouse that likely dates from the early 19th century, although it post-dates Wood's town plan of 1821 and may not have been built all at once. It is associated with the local fishing industry and features three storeys with a long, shallow plan. The building has a series of roundels on the top floor and is linked to a slightly earlier house at the east end of the south wall, forming an L-shaped block that terminates the view along North Beach. The exterior is white-harled with ashlar dressings, end stacks, and a third ridge stack located between the fifth and sixth bays, topped with slate roofs.

The warehouse faces north and consists of eight bays, which appear to have been constructed as two symmetrical components of five and three bays. The presence of an intermediate axial stack and the compact arrangement of the bays support this theory. The lower floors have unmargined flat-linteled openings, with doors and small-paned windows, mostly in sash style. In the five-bay range, there is a central forestair with cast-iron column supports leading to a door at each level above, along with a loft doorway that has a piended dormered hood. Skylights are symmetrically placed, and the roundels feature stone margins with four-pane glazing and cross-shaped astragals. The three-bay range has similar treatment and also includes a hooded loft doorway. The east gable displays margined windows, with a door and window at ground level and sash windows above featuring 12-pane glazing, likely alterations made when the adjoining house was added.

The house has two storeys and an attic, with three bays. It features a central panelled door with a rectangular fanlight and outer tripartite windows throughout. Most windows, except those in the attic, are sashes with plate glass, while the narrow outer lights of the tripartites retain a horizontal division, indicating that larger windows were once astragalled. The house has three flat-roofed attic dormers with modern glazing, skews over the south gable, and a single surviving end stack. The three-bay rear elevation has smaller windows, with a central window between floors that presumably lights the stairs.