Airdrie Public Library, Wellwynd, Airdrie is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 April 1993. Library. 1 related planning application.
Airdrie Public Library, Wellwynd, Airdrie
- WRENN ID
- guardian-chalk-azure
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Airdrie and Shotts MP: Kenneth Stevenson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1993
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Airdrie Public Library, Wellwynd, Airdrie, ML6 0AG
- OS grid reference
- NS 759 654
- Coordinates
- 55.86638, -3.98315
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Airdrie Public Library, designed by J M Arthur in 1924, is a two-storey, seven-bay building with a rectangular plan and a severe classical style. It features a prominent entrance bay with a giant order. The exterior is constructed from cream ashlar sandstone with a grey granite base course and has channelled quoins. Additional architectural details include a base course, a dividing band between the first and second storeys, a broad eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course.
On the principal elevation, the entrance bay is slightly advanced and features a granite hoodmould above a two-leaf timber panelled door. There is a plinth above the door and a recessed bay with a tall, bipartite stained glass window at the centre, flanked by engaged Doric columns in antis. The eaves entablature of the central bay terminates in a blocked parapet, and the outer bays have regular fenestration.
The rear of the library includes a two-storey, five-bay rectangular-plan addition that is harled, along with a further two-storey, two-bay gabled block. The south side elevation has two bays with regular fenestration, while the north side elevation mirrors the south.
The building features multi-pane steel-framed windows with top hoppers and has a low hipped roof covered in grey slates with lead flashing. The interior was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
Airdrie Public Library, Wellwynd, Airdrie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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