147-149 High Street, Falkirk is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 October 1972. Building. 7 related planning applications.
147-149 High Street, Falkirk
- WRENN ID
- gilded-bastion-meadow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Falkirk MP: Euan Stainbank (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1972
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 147-149 High Street, Falkirk, FK1 1DZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 888 798
- Coordinates
- 55.99879, -3.78315
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
147-149 High Street in Falkirk, known as Learmonth's Buildings, was designed by William Stirling III of William Stirling and Son in 1862. This late classical building features three stories and has six windows facing Cow Wynd and three windows facing High Street, with a one-window splayed angle. The openings are framed with architraves and have cornices and pediments on the first floor. The building has a parapet and a slated roof, while the ground floor has been modernized for office use.
Local climate
147-149 High 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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