House at Linishader, Isle of 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. 1 related planning application.
House at Linishader, Isle of Lewis
- WRENN ID
- seventh-bailey-wind
- 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
- Address
- House at Linishader, Isle of Lewis, HS2 9DR
- OS grid reference
- NB 210 319
- Coordinates
- 58.18774, -6.74745
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a lowland-type house located at Linishader on the Isle of Lewis, likely serving as a tacksman's house. It dates from the mid to late 18th century but is currently in a neglected state. The building is two stories high with three bays, facing northeast across the loch towards Callanish. It features a tall and narrow central gable that projects forward and contains the entrance in a re-entrant angle, designed to accommodate a stair. There is a lean-to on the southeast gable that is not original. The exterior is harled, and although most of the sash windows have been lost, the house has a slate roof. At the rear, there is a near-centre wall-head stack, asymmetrical fenestration, and two nearly regular bays, with the left-hand bay unwindowed on the first floor. The building also has attic skylights.
In front of the house, there is a walled garden, and an outbuilding is situated to one side.
Local climate
House at Linishader, Isle of Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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