Steading, Cornhill is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1991.
Steading, Cornhill
- WRENN ID
- scattered-window-onyx
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1991
- OS grid reference
- NT 022 354
- Coordinates
- 55.60247, -3.55356
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The steading and farmhouse at Cornhill were built around 1871 for Alex Kay, who constructed Cornhill House. This is one of two steadings known to have been designed by William Leiper, the other being at Glendarvel House in Argyll and Bute.
The farmhouse is a single-storey and attic structure built of random rubble with sandstone dressings. The front elevation, facing the roadway, is three bays wide. Each bay has an open-eaved gable. The entrance is to the left of the centre bay. The left bay features a timber-mullioned and transomed canted bay window on the ground floor, while the centre and right bays have wooden mullioned and transomed bipartites, with relieving arches above and a cill course. Attic windows are bipartites with mullions and a cill course in all gables. A porch with a catslide roof is located to the right.
The steading is arranged in a U-plan, consisting of a single-storey and attic block, a horse engine house, and a detached barn. The steading is also constructed of random rubble with sandstone dressings, exhibiting irregular fenestration. The centre range features prominent skylights, and the inner faces of the side ranges have gablet ventilators. The threshing barn has a dormer hoist door under a slated gable on its outer face.
The horse engine house has a polygonal roof supported by stone piers, with wide openings, and abuts the threshing barn. The detached barn has a stone base with two tiers of slit ventilators, a vertically slatted wooden band below a piended roof, and is linked to the main range by later buildings.
All roofs are slated, with open eaves and prominent rafter ends.
Local climate
Steading, Cornhill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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