Old Caledonian Bank, 14 South Beach, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 July 1990. 2 related planning applications.

Old Caledonian Bank, 14 South Beach, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
last-newel-sepia
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 July 1990
Address
Old Caledonian Bank, 14 South Beach, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2BE
OS grid reference
NB 422 327
Coordinates
58.20805, -6.38947
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Caledonian Bank, located at 15 South Beach in Stornoway, Lewis, was built in 1883 and is inscribed with its date. It may have involved reworking an existing building. The structure features classical ornamentation and is two stories tall with three bays. The right-hand corner is angled and also decorated, featuring a second door. The exterior is dry-dashed with ashlar dressings, channeling at the angles and the central main entrance bay. Classical details are prominent, including a three-light window on the ground floor with consoled pediment hoods. The building has a balustraded wall-head and a gabled roof behind, with a pair of modern dormers and end stacks. The original glazing pattern is mostly preserved, with sash windows that are four-paned, and the lower sashes of the central ground floor windows are acid-etched.

Local climate

Old Caledonian Bank, 14 South Beach, 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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