Mainhead Farm is a Grade B listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 May 1979. Farmhouse.

Mainhead Farm

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Lanarkshire
Constituency
Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch MP: Katrina Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 May 1979
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NS 767 765
Coordinates
55.96651, -3.97626
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mainhead Farm is a courtyard group of buildings dating from 1786, with later alterations. The farmhouse is located on the south side and features one storey plus attics, with a white-washed rubble front, gabled attic windows that have an arrowslit motif, and a slate roof with skew gables. The building is two windows wide, with plain reveals and a sloped hood on curved brackets above the central door. There are symmetrical low outbuildings at the gable ends. The complex includes a fine group of farm buildings surrounding the yard. The west range consists of a two-storey granary and barn, which has an attached octagonal horse mill on the west side, retaining its original roof timbers. Notable features include distinctive ventilator openings on the upper floor and arched ground floor openings facing the yard, which are partly blocked. There is also a subsidiary range in the yard that includes a group of five flight holes for a pigeon loft.

Local climate

Mainhead Farm 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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