79 High Street, Biggar is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Commercial.

79 High Street, Biggar

WRENN ID
pitched-cupola-russet
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 May 1980
Type
Commercial
Address
79 High Street, Biggar, ML12 6DL
OS grid reference
NT 041 378
Coordinates
55.62452, -3.52431
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

79 High Street in Biggar is a building designed by architect Mr. Fraser of Dumfries, dated 1863 above the eastern door. The structure features an asymmetrical facade with two storeys and an attic in the west gable. It is constructed from snecked squared rubble with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof with four unequal bays, each topped with finialled gables. There are two doors, one off-centre and another in the eastern bay. The ground floor displays mock crenellation above two segmental-headed windows. The projecting eastern bay has canted angles that corbel out to form a square at the first floor, which features two cusped lancets set under a pointed arch. Above this, there is a depiction of St. Andrew within a vesica shape.

Local climate

79 High Street, Biggar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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