26 James 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. Villa.
26 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-thatch-plover
- 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
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NB 426 327
- Coordinates
- 58.20838, -6.38256
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26 James Street in Stornoway, Lewis, is a symmetrical double villa built around 1883 to 1885, based on the style of nearby houses. This compact, two-storey building has an attic storey and features a three-bay front with paired inner doors. The division between the two houses is marked by a bipartite window above. The outer bays have canted ground floor windows, with the right side (No 27) still displaying its original cast-iron cresting. The first-floor windows extend above the eaves and are topped with finialed neo-Jacobean dormerheads. The villa is constructed from coursed rubble with squared dressings and painted details, although it has modern glazing. The skews are preserved only on the left side, and there are end stacks and a slate roof. Each outer bay has a flat-roofed dormer close to the roof ridge, with the right dormer retaining its original sash and case glazing, featuring three-pane upper and lower sashes. There are modern low additions recessed on each side of the building. The boundary wall is topped with spike-headed cast-iron railings and includes the original gates.
Local climate
26 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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