Airigh A' Bhealaigh, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1991.
Airigh A' Bhealaigh, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- keen-eave-candle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- OS grid reference
- NB 540 582
- Coordinates
- 58.4427, -6.21702
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a traditional shieling, one of a significant cluster located in this area, believed to have been constructed primarily in the 19th century. It is a Hebridean-style shieling built into a bank. The walls are of rubble construction, with the doorway on the long front wall having been rebuilt using concrete. A wall-head chimney stack is positioned alongside. The roof is turf-covered and the shieling is enclosed by a fence along the wall-head. The statutory address is CUIASHADER, shieling at OS grid reference NB 5401 5821.
Local climate
Airigh A' Bhealaigh, 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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