Kiledin, 56 Townhead Street, Strathaven is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1980. House. 1 related planning application.

Kiledin, 56 Townhead Street, Strathaven

WRENN ID
spare-hammer-nightshade
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
East Kilbride and Strathaven MP: Joani Reid (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 November 1980
Type
House
Address
Kiledin, 56 Townhead Street, Strathaven, ML10 6DH
OS grid reference
NS 698 443
Coordinates
55.67555, -4.07048
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kiledin is a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay house built in the later 19th century. The exterior features painted stugged ashlar with margins. A central recessed doorway has a shouldered head and is framed by an elaborate Ionic pilastered doorpiece, topped with a decorative bracketed cornice that includes lion masks. The canted windows in the outer bays have simple cornices and blocking courses. On the first floor, there is a central hood-moulded bipartite window with shouldered lights, flanked by hood-moulded tripartite windows with round-headed lights, which are divided by shafts with foliated caps. The house also has an eaves course, cornice, end stacks, and a slate roof.

Local climate

Kiledin, 56 Townhead Street, Strathaven sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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