45-47 Vicar Street, Falkirk is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 October 1972. Post office. 5 related planning applications.

45-47 Vicar Street, Falkirk

WRENN ID
sleeping-spandrel-ochre
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Falkirk MP: Euan Stainbank (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 October 1972
Type
Post office
Address
45-47 Vicar Street, Falkirk, FK1 1LL
OS grid reference
NS 888 801
Coordinates
56.00129, -3.78386
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

45-47 Vicar Street in Falkirk is a late Gothic building designed by W W Robertson and W T Oldrieve in 1893. It is two stories tall and constructed of snecked rubble. The building features a central gable with a shallow rectangular bay on the first floor. Notable architectural details include a corbelled angle oriel and an elaborate crowning feature resembling flying buttresses.

Local climate

45-47 Vicar 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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