Rutherford's Shop, 2 Townhead Street, Strathaven is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1980. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
Rutherford's Shop, 2 Townhead Street, Strathaven
- WRENN ID
- dark-lead-harvest
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- East Kilbride and Strathaven MP: Joani Reid (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1980
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Rutherford's Shop, 2 Townhead Street, Strathaven, ML10 6AB
- OS grid reference
- NS 700 445
- Coordinates
- 55.67694, -4.06728
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rutherford's Shop is a mid-19th century single storey and attic building located at 2 Townhead Street in Strathaven. The structure is made of stugged ashlar with polished long and short quoins and dressings. It features two unequal bays facing Townhead Street, with a recessed door set in a curved angle. The windows are adorned with apron panels, and there is an eaves course and cornice. The roof is piended slate with a canted and piended dormer.
Local climate
Rutherford's Shop, 2 Townhead Street, Strathaven 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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