26 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1993. Villa.

26 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
crumbling-thatch-plover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 February 1993
Type
Villa
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1883-5 (on analogy with dated neighbouring houses). Symmetrical 2-storey double villa with attic storey also squeezed in. Compact, with 3-bay front, paired inner doors, bipartite above marks division between houses. Canted ground floor windows in outer bays, that to right (No 27) retaining original cast-iron cresting; 1st floor windows reach above eaves and have finialed neo-Jacobean dormerheads. Built of coursed rubble, squared dressings, painted detail; modern glazing; skews survive at left only; end stacks, slate roof, flat-roofed dormer over each outer bay set close to roof ridge, that to right with original glazing (sash and case, 3-pane upper and lower sashes). Modern low addition recessed on each flank. Boundary wall topped by spike-headed cast-iron railings; original gates.

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