Post Office, 16 Francis 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. Post office. 6 related planning applications.
Post Office, 16 Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- drifting-tallow-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1993
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 16 Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2AD
- OS grid reference
- NB 424 328
- Coordinates
- 58.20878, -6.38629
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Post Office on Francis Street in Stornoway, Lewis, is a building that dates from the 1920s and is likely designed by J Wilson Paterson or his predecessor W T Oldrieve from the Ministry of Works. It features a Scots baronial style, constructed from brown rock-faced ashlar with contrasting yellow ashlar dressings and Scots renaissance mouldings. The building has small-paned sash windows and a green slate roof. It stands two storeys high with a low wing on the right. The front follows an L-plan tower design, although the gabled left bay, which contains a vehicle pend, does not project into the street. The entrance door is off-centre, with "Post Office" inscribed in art nouveau lettering on the frieze. The first-floor windows extend through the eaves and have pedimented dormer heads, while the main roof slopes down into the areas between, connected by a rhone pipe. The building features coped stacks, crow-stepped gables, and the roof over the low wing is partly hidden by a high wall-head.
Local climate
Post Office, 16 Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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