Whalebone Arch, Bragar, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1978. Arch.
Whalebone Arch, Bragar, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- floating-render-peregrine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1978
- Type
- Arch
- OS grid reference
- NB 291 477
- Coordinates
- 58.33406, -6.62902
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Whalebone Arch in Bragar, Lewis, is a large structure that serves as a gateway to a private house. It symbolizes the whaling industry that local men participated in, although this particular arch is made from a whale that washed ashore. The arch is mounted on a pair of substantial rubble-built piers and is braced at the top with a harpoon that is slung underneath.
Local climate
Whalebone Arch, Bragar, 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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