Miners' Library Including Boundary Wall, 15 Main Street is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 September 2006. Library.
Miners' Library Including Boundary Wall, 15 Main Street
- WRENN ID
- silent-pewter-heron
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 September 2006
- Type
- Library
- OS grid reference
- NS 886 150
- Coordinates
- 55.41706, -3.76006
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Miners' Library, located at 15 Main Street, is a purpose-built library that likely dates from the late 18th century. It is a single-storey building with three bays, featuring a central gabled entrance porch adorned with decorative bargeboards and steps leading to the entrance on the west side. The exterior is finished in cream-painted harled rubble with grey margins, and it has a timber two-leaf entrance door. The eastern elevation is blank.
The library has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is topped with graded purple slates, while the porch features banded fishscale slates. A gable coped stack with thackstanes is located on the north side.
The boundary wall to the west is low and has flat coping, constructed from rubble with cement render.
Inside, there are bespoke bookcases along the rear wall and part of the side walls, likely installed in 1874, and the library houses a notable collection of books.
Local climate
Miners' Library Including Boundary Wall, 15 Main Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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