A well known Stornoway business with an 100 year history has been put up for sale.
The Murdo Maclean department store in Cromwell Street in the town centre has been placed on the open market.
The shop retails a large selection of ladies and menswear, shoes, home and hardware, gifts and drapery.
Offers over £799,000, excluding stock, are invited for the freehold shop building and business as a going concern.
The business has been in the same family since the early 1900s.
It grew out of the booming herring industry early last century when Murdo Maclean set up as a fishcurer and fishing boat owner on a site behind the present day Coffee Pot cafe.
From the profits, he bought the shop building on Cromwell Street around the time of WW1, later expanding it through to Kenneth Street.
Its former garage which used to house the original delivery lorry is now incorporated into the retail property.
Mr Maclean served on Stornoway Town Council between 1900 to 1926. He was Provost of Stornoway in 1916.
The family previously owned a furniture shop, also on Cromwell Street, which is now Stornoway Library.
Selling agents, Smith and Clough Business Associates, say the "long established and popular department store within substantial freehold property has a prime trading position within the heart of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis."
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9 June 2015