Old Jail, Hanton's Yard, Main Street, Glamis is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 September 1998. Former jail.
Old Jail, Hanton's Yard, Main Street, Glamis
- WRENN ID
- vast-vault-aspen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1998
- Type
- Former jail
- OS grid reference
- NO 384 467
- Coordinates
- 56.60841, -3.00464
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Jail, located in Hanton's Yard on Main Street in Glamis, is likely from the early 19th century. It is a single-storey, two-bay building with a rectangular plan, constructed of random rubble and featuring large squared quoins and voussoirs. The structure has a vaulted design and a round-headed door, topped with a corrugated-iron roof.
On the southeast elevation, the entrance door is positioned to the left of centre, with a window that was formerly barred to the right. The building extends to semi-derelict bays on the outer right. There is an ashlar stack that projects from the centre of the roof pitch.
The southwest elevation is blank at ground level and has been raised in breeze block to the gablehead, which includes a small opening.
Inside, the building features a stone vault with small niches in the wall thickness near the floor on the southwest and northeast sides.
Local climate
Old Jail, Hanton's Yard, Main Street, Glamis sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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