Monument record - The Museum,Francis Street, Stornoway

'Nos 25,27, and 29 Francis Street form an attractive symmetrical group of relatively small, earl to nineteenth-century houses. Each is two-storeyed, with centre doors and harled and slated roofs. Across the road,36,38 and 40 Francis Street are also typical of the mid nineteenth-century dwellings in Stornoway, in spite of the modern alterations. Two other buildings are reminders of Stornoway's historic past. The present Museum was formerly the Free Church Seminary and school. The block to the west is single-storeyed, possibly of the mid ninteenth century, with later nineteenth-century additions; it functioned as a church. The building to the east has mullioned windows, six close-spaced bipartites at the ground level ans those at the first floor with gabled heads rising avove the eaves. The entire property is still surrounded by a low boundary wall with spiked, cast-iron railings.'(E.Dennison and R.Coleman,1997,62)

The Museum was also used by the Nicolson school up until the early 1990's, four rooms were utilised as classrooms teaching, history, goegraphy, English and R,E.

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