Black House, New Tolsta, Lewis is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1993. House.
Black House, New Tolsta, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- proud-barrel-onyx
- Grade
- C
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NB 535 481
- Coordinates
- 58.35239, -6.21365
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Black House in New Tolsta, Lewis, is a traditional-type black house that includes integral outbuildings. It is no longer used for domestic purposes since 1991. The original thatched roof has been replaced with a pitched felt roof. The house features massively thick rubble walls, with a door located off-centre on the south long wall and another opening on the east end. The structure consists of two individually-roofed buildings linked at the northeast, which are presumably a byre and a barn.
Local climate
Black House, New Tolsta, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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