The Portvaults, 116 High Street, Lanark is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Public house.

The Portvaults, 116 High Street, Lanark

WRENN ID
ruined-wicket-saffron
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 May 1980
Type
Public house
OS grid reference
NS 884 436
Coordinates
55.67368, -3.77568
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Portvaults, located at 116 High Street in Lanark, is an earlier 19th-century building. It has two storeys and features four windows facing High Street, one window at a curved angle, and four windows on the South Vennel side. The exterior is finished in stucco, painted black with white joints to resemble ashlar. The ground floor has been altered, while the first floor windows have margins at angles and are flanked by a curved bay. All windows are sashes with 12-pane glazing. There is a gablet wallhead stack above the right window on the South Vennel elevation, along with end stacks, straight skews, and a slate roof.

Local climate

The Portvaults, 116 High Street, Lanark sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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 0.3°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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