Burgh Chambers, 124 Main Street, Barrhead is a Grade C listed building in the East Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 April 2004. Burgh building. 2 related planning applications.

Burgh Chambers, 124 Main Street, Barrhead

WRENN ID
distant-moat-rain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Renfrewshire
Constituency
East Renfrewshire MP: Blair McDougall (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 April 2004
Type
Burgh building
Address
Burgh Chambers, 124 Main Street, Barrhead, G78 1SG
OS grid reference
NS 502 588
Coordinates
55.80002, -4.39088
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Burgh Chambers, located at 124 Main Street in Barrhead, is a two-storey, two-bay burgh building designed in the Free Scots Renaissance style by McWhannell and Rogerson in 1902. The building features a crowstep gable and a centrally located entrance that is fluted and pilastered, with the Barrhead coat of arms displayed above. The entrance includes a timber two-leaf door adorned with iron studs, decorative locks, and hinges, flanked by bipartite windows.

On the first floor, there is a large round-arched window with a pilastered key-block design to the right, which has a datestone inscribed with '1902' above it. To the left, there is a mullioned and transomed bipartite window with strapwork above. The exterior is constructed of coursed, bull-faced red sandstone, complemented by polished ashlar dressings.

The building is topped with grey slate roofs featuring terracotta ridge tiles, tall stacks, and clay cans. It also has cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 2004.

Local climate

Burgh Chambers, 124 Main Street, Barrhead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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