30 James Street, 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. villa, guest house. 1 related planning application.

30 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
slow-bronze-aspen
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
villa, guest house
Address
30 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2QN
OS grid reference
NB 426 327
Coordinates
58.20857, -6.38216
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

30 James Street in Stornoway, Lewis, is a double villa built in 1883. This symmetrical, crow-stepped building has two storeys and an attic, featuring four bays arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern. The paired inner doors and first-floor windows are connected by a shared hood and are located in the centre gabled bay. The outer bays have canted ground floor windows, while the first floor has crow-stepped dormer heads. The structure is made of pinned, coursed, and squared rubble with squared dressings and painted details, although it has modern glazing. The villa has corniced apex stacks and a slate roof, with low and flat-roofed dormers close to the roof ridge on each side. There are modern additions on either side, including a guest house accommodation wing with a modern conservatory on the right and a garage block on the left that connects to the house. The boundary wall is topped with decorative cast-iron railings, and the original gates are still present, although there is a modern overthrow on the right.

Local climate

30 James 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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