8 North Beach, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

8 North Beach, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
little-merlon-fern
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1971
Type
House
Address
8 North Beach, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2XP
OS grid reference
NB 421 327
Coordinates
58.20829, -6.39099
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

8 North Beach in Stornoway, Lewis, is likely an early 19th-century, two-storey house featuring three bays. The ground floor has an asymmetrically-placed window in the right bay. The exterior is finished with painted render and margins, and there is a panelled door. The house has modern sash windows with four-pane glazing and a steep-pitched slate roof, which includes skews and an end stack on the right side. A taller hotel is attached to the left, and there is a single modern rooflight located centrally on the roof.

Local climate

8 North Beach, 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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