Monument record 7293 - 16, 18 Cromwell Street, Stornoway

'Although there as been no opportunity to examine any of the street frontages in Stornoway,evidance of earlier,possibly medieval structures may be expected,sealed beneath the eighteenth-or nineteenth-century standing building such as 16-18 Cromwell Street,sometimes called the Town House and now functioning as Merchant's Coffee House.Possibly on the site of the earlier tolbooth,this three -storeyed building,with attic,sits in a skewed position,reminiscent,by tradition,of the tolbooth.Above the ground-floor modern facade,many nineteenth-century features indicate the quality of workmanship of that time.'(E.Dennison and R.Coleman, 1997, 61).

E. Patricia Dennison & Russel Coleman, 1997, Historic Stornoway: the archaeological implications of development (Bibliographic reference). SWE41004.