Post Office, 16 Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis

The Post Office on Francis Street in Stornoway, Lewis, is a building that dates from the 1920s and is likely designed by J Wilson Paterson or his predecessor W T Oldrieve from the Ministry of Works. It features a Scots baronial style, constructed from brown rock-faced ashlar with contrasting yellow ashlar dressings and Scots renaissance mouldings. The building has small-paned sash windows and a green slate roof. It stands two storeys high with a low wing on the right. The front follows an L-plan tower design, although the gabled left bay, which contains a vehicle pend, does not project into the street. The entrance door is off-centre, with "Post Office" inscribed in art nouveau lettering on the frieze. The first-floor windows extend through the eaves and have pedimented dormer heads, while the main roof slopes down into the areas between, connected by a rhone pipe. The building features coped stacks, crow-stepped gables, and the roof over the low wing is partly hidden by a high wall-head.