2 East High Street, Airdrie is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 March 2002. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
2 East High Street, Airdrie
- WRENN ID
- standing-brass-raven
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Airdrie and Shotts MP: Kenneth Stevenson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 March 2002
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 2 East High Street, Airdrie, ML6 6LF
- OS grid reference
- NS 760 657
- Coordinates
- 55.86852, -3.98233
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 East High Street in Airdrie is a late 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay corner tenement building that features shops on the ground floor. The corner bay has an attic storey with a pedimented oculus at the center. The exterior is finished with painted ashlar sandstone courses and includes channelled quoins between the bays, a base course, and a dentil-moulded dividing band between the ground and upper storeys. The eaves course has a consoled projecting cornice, and the window sills are also consoled and projecting.
On the south elevation facing South Bridge Street, there are three bays with a bowed corner entrance bay to the left, featuring a modern shop front on the ground floor. Above a large plate glass window is a blind semicircular arch that supports scrollwork cresting with acanthus detailing at the center. The upper storey has an advanced canted window and a bowed corner bay to the left with a consoled and panelled dado. The attic storey has bracketed chimneys flanking a central semicircular pediment on a fluted parapet, with oculi at the center and acanthus scroll cresting.
The east elevation mirrors the south elevation, but the ground floor has a crested blind arch at the center and a door to the far left. The south elevation is partially obscured by an adjoining building.
The upper storey features four-pane timber sash and case windows, while the ground floor has plate glass shop fronts. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes lead flashing and a lead roof for the attic. There are coped skews, urn-finialed consoled skewputts, and a coped gable stack on the east side.
Inside, the ground floor has a modern retail interior, while the upper storey has been refurbished for office use.
Local climate
2 East High Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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