Tower Guest House, 32 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1993. Guest house. 2 related planning applications.
Tower Guest House, 32 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- unlit-column-merlin
- 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
- Guest house
- Address
- Tower Guest House, 32 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2QN
- OS grid reference
- NB 427 328
- Coordinates
- 58.20869, -6.38182
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tower Guest House, located at 32 James Street in Stornoway, Lewis, dates back to 1885. This crow-stepped villa is situated on a street corner and features two storeys with an attic. It has a three-bay L-shaped front that includes a crenellated entrance tower in the re-entrant angle and a consoled hood over the doorway. The building is constructed from squared rubble with dressings and painted details, featuring a mix of modern glazing and some original sash windows. The outer bays have three-light windows, while the right side has a canted and crenellated ground floor window, with a corresponding window to the left in a projecting square bay that has stop-chamfered features. The first floor windows have (?timber) mullions. The villa has corniced apex stacks and a slate roof. The flank elevation facing Matheson Street is plainer, with crow-stepped gables and dormer heads above the eaves level. The property is enclosed by a low boundary wall topped with decorative cast-iron railings and features original gates.
Local climate
Tower Guest House, 32 James 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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