Elphinstone Hotel, 145 High Street, Biggar is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. 2 related planning applications.

Elphinstone Hotel, 145 High Street, Biggar

WRENN ID
drifting-terrace-barley
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
Address
Elphinstone Hotel, 145 High Street, Biggar, ML12 6DL
OS grid reference
NT 042 378
Coordinates
55.6249, -3.52207
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

149 High Street in Biggar is a late 18th century building that has undergone some alterations. The exterior is harled and painted, featuring chamfered margins and a slate roof. The structure consists of two buildings. The western building is two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical front with three windows. It includes two late 19th century canted dormers with gablet heads and a pilastered doorway. The eastern building is also two storeys tall and has a three-window front with a central tripartite design and a pend, though the pend has modern windows that are currently blocked.

Local climate

Elphinstone Hotel, 145 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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