Loch Croistean Centre, Old School and Schoolhouse, Uig, Isle of Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. School, house. 3 related planning applications.
Loch Croistean Centre, Old School and Schoolhouse, Uig, Isle of Lewis
- WRENN ID
- late-storey-juniper
- Grade
- B
- 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
- School, house
- Address
- Loch Croistean Centre, Old School and Schoolhouse, Uig, Isle of Lewis, HS2 9EP
- OS grid reference
- NB 112 304
- Coordinates
- 58.16775, -6.91227
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Loch Croistean Centre, which includes an old school and schoolhouse, was built shortly after the Education Act of 1872. It is a combined school and schoolhouse, following a basic pattern commonly found on the Isle of Lewis. The building has an asymmetrical design, featuring harled walls and slate roofs with projecting eaves. The windows are small-paned sashes, either single or with timber mullions, and there are prominent chimney stacks.
The school section is on the right and is a single-storey structure with a tall tripartite window in the front gable and a porch that is recessed on the right flank. There is a modern outshot at the back.
The house section has higher eaves and roof levels, also a single storey with an attic. It has a two-bay front, with a bipartite window on the right and a swept-roofed window at the first floor, along with a narrow ground floor window to the left. A corrugated iron porch is recessed on the left gable, with three windows above.
Surrounding the property are garden and playground walls made of rubble, along with square gatepiers, which are also made of rubble, while those at the roadside are harled.
Local climate
Loch Croistean Centre, Old School and Schoolhouse, Uig, Isle of Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 3 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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