40 Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1993.

40 Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
endless-jade-marsh
Grade
C
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
Address
40 Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2NF
OS grid reference
NB 426 328
Coordinates
58.20916, -6.38361
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

38 Francis Street is a mid to late 19th-century double house that stands two stories tall with an attic, featuring a flat front and a two plus two bay layout. It occupies a corner site where the street curves in front of two public buildings. The exterior is made of coursed rubble, consisting of whin and granite, with squared dressings. A continuous hood extends over the paired inner doors, and there is stepped moulding above the ground floor windows, all made of ashlar. The house has modern glazing and a slate roof. The outer bays contain bipartite windows, while the attic features re-glazed piended dormers. The close-spaced inner bays have single windows and skylights, and there are corniced stacks at the ends.

Local climate

40 Francis Street, 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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