Bayhead Lodge, Lews Castle, 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. Gatehouse, lodge.
Bayhead Lodge, Lews Castle, Stornoway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- tall-garret-cedar
- 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
- Type
- Gatehouse, lodge
- OS grid reference
- NB 424 336
- Coordinates
- 58.21586, -6.38686
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bayhead Lodge is a castellated gateway and lodges that are part of Lews Castle in Stornoway, Lewis, likely designed by Charles Wilson in the mid-19th century. The structure is built from rubble with ashlar dressings. The windows were boarded up in 1991 and were formerly casements. The main front facing the town is symmetrical and features a tall, square-plan gatehouse with buttresses. It has a high, pointed-arched carriage pend underneath and two-leaf gates of yett-type. On either side of the gatehouse are lower, single-bay lodges, each with arched bipartite windows and a parapet base that is also arched. There are parapetted low quadrant walls on either side. The treatment of the lodges is not identical on the rear elevation, which includes an entrance in a stone-roofed, full-width low outshot located on the left (north) side.
Local climate
Bayhead Lodge, Lews Castle, 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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