Description

John Robertson of Inverness, built 1905 (rebuilt 1928 after a fire in 1918). Municipal buildings and town hall, large 2-storey block with 3 ornamented and symmetrical street elevation. Free Gothic/transitional. Built of imported stone, rock-faced brown ashlar, contrasting yellow dressings; slated roofs, partly concealed by parapets, tall, conical and finialed over turreted corved corner bays. Mullioned and/or transomed windows (principally T-shaped or cross-shaped window divides) with plate glass glazing; mostly square and depressed-arched openings throughout. Decorative clock turret set above halls range at rear further enlivens roofline. Main front to South Beach has sculptured detail especially at first floor - empty canopied niches below paired wall-head diamond flues, ogee moulding and crocketted finials over windows; main entrance central with balcony over, flanking turreted bays; Cromwell Street elevation near-symmetrical, neo-Jacobean treatment to centre entrance bay.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Stornoway Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7620315

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)