Free Church, Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Free Church, Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- roaming-portal-meadow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NB 424 329
- Coordinates
- 58.20945, -6.38663
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church on Kenneth Street in Stornoway, Lewis, was built around 1843. It is a rectangular-plan Gothic church with a box-type design and a main gabled front facing Kenneth Street. The center of the facade features a slightly advanced engaged shallow entrance tower, which has off-set stages and tall pinnacles topped with iron finials, resembling the tower of the nearby Episcopal church. The church has pointed openings throughout, although the original tracery was replaced with a much simpler pattern in the 1980s. The exterior is dry-dashed with contrasting rendered margins that are shaped to look like rock-faced ashlar. The gable includes a central double doorway, a gallery window above a clock, and a louvred lancet in the stages above, with windows on either side. The north flank has three bays with outshots, and there is a door located close to the front gable. A rear wing is recessed on the right side. A plain boundary wall runs along the street. The interior was not inspected during the 1989 resurvey.
Local climate
Free Church, 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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- Radon risk assessment
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