Kennels, Grimersta, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. Kennels.
Kennels, Grimersta, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- sombre-chamber-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- Type
- Kennels
- OS grid reference
- NB 215 302
- Coordinates
- 58.17256, -6.73698
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a late 19th-century kennel located in Grimersta, Lewis. It has an octagonal shape, with a harled exterior and a facetted roof that is covered with slate. At the south end, there is a rectangular enclosure featuring a concrete wall topped with an iron fence.
Local climate
Kennels, Grimersta, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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