Old School House, Acha Mor, 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. 1 related planning application.
Old School House, Acha Mor, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- drifting-quoin-mint
- 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
- Address
- Old School House, Acha Mor, Lewis, HS2 9DU
- OS grid reference
- NB 308 295
- Coordinates
- 58.17216, -6.5796
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old School House at Acha Mor, Lewis, is a school building constructed after the 1872 Education Act. It is a single-storey structure with a nearly symmetrical front featuring three bays. The building has timber-mullioned three-light windows throughout and a central gable that is advanced. There are doorways located in each re-entrant angle, with the left doorway set within a small square porch topped with a pyramid roof.
The building is made of rubble with squared dressings, and the window lintels are flat brick arches, with the central lintel rendered. The windows are sash type, with plate glass on the front (which may have originally been astragalled) and small panes in the end gables. The roof is covered with slate and features asymmetrically placed stacks. At the rear, there is a lavatory block that appears to be original, although it has had concrete additions.
The property is enclosed by playground walls made of rubble.
Local climate
Old School House, Acha Mor, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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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- Radon risk assessment
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