Religious Bookshop, 7 Kenneth 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. Industrial building.

Religious Bookshop, 7 Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Lewis

WRENN ID
bitter-ember-onyx
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
Industrial building
OS grid reference
NB 423 328
Coordinates
58.20879, -6.38733
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This mid-19th century building, located at 7 Kenneth Street in Stornoway, Lewis, is an industrial structure with its gable facing the street. Its original function is uncertain, but it seems to be connected to the fishing industry. The building has a long, rectangular plan and consists of two storeys with nine nearly regular bays featuring doors and windows with various glazing patterns on both levels, along with a long row of skylights. It is constructed from rubble with squared dressings and has a gabled slate roof with skews and end stacks. Later buildings are attached to the front wall. The gable that faces the street includes two windows at the ground level and a centrally placed blocked loft doorway.

Local climate

Religious Bookshop, 7 Kenneth 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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