Brandon Tower, Brandon Street, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 October 1987. Tenement.
Brandon Tower, Brandon Street, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- muffled-column-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1987
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- Brandon Tower, Brandon Street, Hamilton, ML3 7DR
- OS grid reference
- NS 723 553
- Coordinates
- 55.77426, -4.03686
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Brandon Tower is a three-storey and attic tenement built by Peat and Duncan of Hamilton between 1878 and 1879, designed in the French Renaissance style. It occupies a wide corner site and features polished ashlar stonework, mostly channelled at the first floor, with modern shops at the ground level. The building includes some sculptured ornamentation, particularly at the eaves, and has mainly round-headed windows on the second floor, along with pedimented wallhead dormers.
The symmetrical elevation facing Quarry Street has three pilastered bays, with a two-storey shallow canted window centrally located above the ground floor. This window is topped by a fishscale slated dome, which features scalloped flashings and iron cresting, and is set back behind a pair of wallhead stacks flanking the attic window. The outer bays contain paired windows. The building has five bays (two plus three) on Brandon Street and three bays (two plus one) on Lamb Street, with plainer detailing on the bays nearest the west side. The windows are either sashes or casements, and there are end and wallhead stacks. The design includes a cornice, a low parapet pierced by attic windows, and a slated French roof with a leaded platform.
Local climate
Brandon Tower, Brandon Street, Hamilton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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