School, Lochboisdale, South Uist is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 October 1997.

School, Lochboisdale, South Uist

WRENN ID
spare-wicket-sepia
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 October 1997
OS grid reference
NF 785 201
Coordinates
57.15874, -7.31963
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a two-storey gabled schoolhouse constructed in 1909, located in Lochboisdale, South Uist. It is linked at right angles to another gabled school building. The exterior features painted render with a base course and painted dressings, along with stone mullions.

The schoolhouse has three bays, with an advanced gabled bay on the right that includes bipartite windows on each floor. A door is situated in a narrower, less advanced bay at the center, featuring a letterbox fanlight above it, and a window with a gabled dormer head above that. The recessed bay to the left also has bipartite windows on both floors, which break the eaves at the first floor. The left side has a gabled return with a window on each floor, while the right side of the return has a later lean-to. There are single-storey service bays at the rear, connecting to the school.

The school itself has an M-gable facing the road, with the right gable slightly advanced. The left gable features a gabled ashlar bellcote at the apex with a weathervane, a door to the right, and a bipartite window to the left. The right gable has a tall tripartite window, while the rear elevation facing the playground is also M-gabled, with each gable containing tall tripartite windows. The gable to the right of the return elevation is blank, and the left is similarly unadorned.

The windows throughout are timber sash and case, either 8 or 12 panes. The roof is covered with purple slates, and there are gablehead stacks with coping and clay cans, as well as coped skews.

The interior was not seen as of 1997. The garden and boundary walls consist of rubble with render-pointing and semicircular coping, complemented by square gatepiers for both pedestrian and vehicular access.

Local climate

School, Lochboisdale, South Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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