20 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. 1 related planning application.
20 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- dusted-frieze-dust
- 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
- Address
- 20 James Street, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2QN
- OS grid reference
- NB 426 327
- Coordinates
- 58.2081, -6.38321
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18 James Street in Stornoway, Lewis, is a symmetrical two-storey double villa built around 1883 to 1885, based on the style of nearby houses. The villa features neo-Jacobean shaped gables on the front and is constructed of rubble, with most detailing painted and modern glazing. It has four bays arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern, with the inner two bays containing paired doorways beneath the shaped gable. A consoled hood connects the doors, and a hood-mould links the windows above. The ground floor windows are canted, and the dormer heads above have globe finials. The building has apex stacks and a slate roof, with small skylights illuminating the attics. A low boundary wall along the street is topped with decorative cast-iron railings that extend along Lewis Street, featuring three particularly elaborate original cast-iron gates.
Local climate
20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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