South Church Hall, West Street, Penicuik is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 2000. Church hall. 6 related planning applications.
South Church Hall, West Street, Penicuik
- WRENN ID
- crooked-gutter-moth
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2000
- Type
- Church hall
- OS grid reference
- NT 234 598
- Coordinates
- 55.82545, -3.22358
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Church Hall, located on West Street in Penicuik, is a mid-19th century gothic church hall with later additions. It is a single-storey building featuring a flat roof and an original five-bay layout. The exterior is constructed from tooled, squared, and snecked sandstone rubble, accented with droved ashlar dressings. The principal elevation showcases pointed-arch openings with hoodmoulds and chamfered reveals. Strip quoins are present on the outer left and right sides of the principal elevation, which steps up at the center and is coped.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a central four-light window with intersecting tracery, flanked by a pair of five-panel, two-leaf timber doors that display gothic decoration. Tall five-pane lancet windows with blind upper panes are located on the outer left and right.
The east elevation features a centrally located window at ground level, with a four-bay flat-roofed addition to the left. This addition includes a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door in the penultimate bay from the right, with windows in the remaining bays.
The south (rear) elevation has a two-bay angled section to the left, with infilled windows in each bay that have relieving arches. A lower modern five-bay flat-roofed addition obscures the elevation to the right.
The west elevation is blank. The principal elevation windows have replacement glazing, while the remaining windows are plate glass timber sash and case and casement windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1999.
Local climate
South Church Hall, West Street, Penicuik sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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