Stables, Torrance House, East Kilbride is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1963. Office, stable.
Stables, Torrance House, East Kilbride
- WRENN ID
- fading-buttress-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- East Kilbride and Strathaven MP: Joani Reid (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1963
- Type
- Office, stable
- OS grid reference
- NS 654 526
- Coordinates
- 55.74838, -4.1452
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a former stable associated with Torrance House in East Kilbride, designed by William Adam in 1740 and later converted in the 20th century. It is a two-storey structure with five bays, constructed from rubble with smooth margins.
On the northeast elevation, there is a central round-arched door featuring a keystone, flanked by single windows. Above, there are five square single windows, and an attic window is positioned to the right of the roof.
The southeast elevation is blind, lacking any openings.
The southwest elevation includes bipartite windows in the left bay, a single window in the second bay from the left, and a door with a window in the third bay from the left. The right bay has bipartite windows. Above, there are four attic windows, with bipartite windows in the end bays and single windows in the center bays.
On the northwest elevation, there is a door at ground level and a single window in the left bay at the first floor.
The building features modern glazing and has a piended slate roof with very tall, coped stacks at the southeast and northwest ends.
Local climate
Stables, Torrance House, East Kilbride sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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 0.3°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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