24 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 February 1993.

24 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
carved-solder-root
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 February 1993
Address
24 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2QN
OS grid reference
NB 426 327
Coordinates
58.20828, -6.38279
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

22 James Street in Stornoway, Lewis, is a double villa built in 1884. This symmetrical, two-storey building also has an attic storey and features neo-Jacobean gables on the front. The exterior is finished with modern dry-dash and has ashlar dressings, along with modern glazing. The villa has four bays arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern, with the two inner bays containing paired doorways beneath a shaped gable. The ground floor windows are canted, and the window on the right (No 24) still has its original cast-iron cresting. The building has apex stacks and a slate roof, with flat-roofed dormers over the outer bays, which are positioned close to the roof ridge and have been rebuilt. The modern concrete skews are also noted. Surrounding the property is a boundary wall topped with plain, spiked cast-iron railings, and the original gates are still in place.

Local climate

24 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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