Social Work Department, Newmarket Street, Falkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1979. Former municipal building.

Social Work Department, Newmarket Street, Falkirk

WRENN ID
calm-flint-pigeon
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Falkirk MP: Euan Stainbank (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 April 1979
Type
Former municipal building
Address
Social Work Department, Newmarket Street, Falkirk, FK1 1JQ
OS grid reference
NS 887 800
Coordinates
56.00079, -3.78621
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Social Work Department on Newmarket Street in Falkirk is a building designed by William Black in 1879. It features a rogue baronial style and is constructed from two stories of bull-faced rubble. Notable architectural elements include a gabled corner tower with a bay oriel supported by a squat column, gables, angle turrets, and a truncated pyramid roof topped with ironwork. The gables are crowstepped and the roof is slated.

Local climate

Social Work Department, Newmarket Street, Falkirk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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