44, 46 Main Street, Wishaw is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2001. 3 related planning applications.
44, 46 Main Street, Wishaw
- WRENN ID
- leaning-balcony-evening
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke MP: Pamela Nash (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2001
- Address
- 44, 46 Main Street, Wishaw, ML2 7AF
- OS grid reference
- NS 796 550
- Coordinates
- 55.77409, -3.92015
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
40, 42, 48, 50 Main Street in Wishaw is a later 19th century, two-storey, four-bay tenement building with shops on the ground floor. It is constructed from yellow ashlar sandstone and features large canted gable dormers and tripartite windows.
The southwest, or principal elevation, is symmetrical with regular window placement and a plain dividing band between the ground and first floors. It has tripartite segmental arch windows with engaged column mullions topped with Corinthian capitals, plain projected architraves with keystones, a plain eaves course, and a projecting cornice. The ground floor has a modern shop front.
The northeast, or rear elevation, has irregular window placement and is made of squared sandstone. There is a forestair to the left with a wooden lean-to porch, and a square-plan stair tower to the right with a piended roof.
The southeast side elevation is obscured by an adjacent building, while the northwest side elevation is blank and partially obscured as well.
The building has modern double glazing, grey slates with lead ridges, and coped sandstone stacks at the gable ends and ridge. The interior features modern shop fittings.
Local climate
44, 46 Main Street, Wishaw sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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 — 3 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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