Dun Carloway, Lewis is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. House.
Dun Carloway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- secret-moulding-vale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NB 190 411
- Coordinates
- 58.26928, -6.79338
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dun Carloway is a roofless shell of a traditional Hebridean-type cottage, situated near the pathway that leads up to the Dun Carloway broch, which lies beneath it. The cottage features massive rubble walls, with wall-heads that are now covered in grass. It has a long, rectangular plan and is unwindowed, with doors facing each other on the long side walls. One door serves as the original main entrance, while the other leads into an integral barn or byre that is attached at the rear.
Local climate
Dun Carloway, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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