Fasgadh, 2 Matheson Road, 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.

Fasgadh, 2 Matheson Road, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
sleeping-rafter-dew
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
OS grid reference
NB 426 328
Coordinates
58.20902, -6.38198
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Brentor, located at 4 Matheson Road in Stornoway, Lewis, is a double villa built in 1886. This symmetrical, two-storey building features an iron-railed boundary wall and is considered one of the most attractive examples of its type. The villa has four bays arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern and is crow-stepped towards the street. It is constructed from blue-green stone, squared and laid in regular courses, with ashlar detailing.

The design includes paired inner doorways with panelled doors and rectangular fanlights, which are connected by a continuous cornice and positioned beneath a wide wall-head gable. The outer bays feature canted ground floor windows, while the first-floor windows have crow-stepped dormer heads. The house on the left, known as Fasgadh, retains its original plate glass and four-pane sash windows, while the right side has modern glazing, though the central horizontal division remains.

The villa has skews over the end gables, apex stacks, and a slate roof. The north flank is finished with painted render, while the south flank and rear outbuilding are clad in artificial stone. The boundary wall extends west along Springfield Road and is topped with decorative cast-iron railings, with the original paired gates still intact.

Local climate

Fasgadh, 2 Matheson Road, 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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