18 Matheson Road, 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.

18 Matheson Road, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
half-gable-nightshade
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
OS grid reference
NB 426 333
Coordinates
58.21341, -6.38412
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a large, symmetrical two-storey villa from the late 19th or early 20th century, located at 18 Matheson Road in Stornoway, Lewis. It features a painted render with contrasting detailing and modern glazing, topped with a slate roof. The villa has a gabled shape and is deep in plan, with a five-bay front arranged in a 1-3-1 pattern. The central three bays are topped with a shaped gable, and the doorway is sheltered by a canopied hood. The outer bays have canted windows on the ground floor, while the first-floor windows are bipartite with steep-gabled dormer heads. There are end stacks on the roof. Surrounding the property is a boundary wall that steps down to follow the slope and is topped with decorative cast-iron railings.

Local climate

18 Matheson Road, 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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