Sun Hotel, Kirk Street, Strathaven is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1980. House.
Sun Hotel, Kirk Street, Strathaven
- WRENN ID
- rooted-flue-falcon
- 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
- Sun Hotel, Kirk Street, Strathaven, ML10 6LB
- OS grid reference
- NS 702 444
- Coordinates
- 55.6758, -4.06469
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Sun Hotel on Kirk Street in Strathaven consists of two early 19th century houses and one early 20th century building located to the southwest. The house to the northeast is two storeys tall with four bays, featuring painted ashlar and an altered ground floor, along with two piended canted dormers. The central house is also two storeys with three bays, finished in harled render and with an altered ground floor. Both houses have central wall-head pediments, each containing a blind oculus and apex stacks, as well as an eaves course and cornice. The range to the southwest, which displays simplified Art Nouveau details, is two storeys high with five bays and is also harled. It features broad round-headed windows and a door on the ground floor, along with three first-floor windows topped with pedimented dormer heads. The right bay is advanced and canted, and the building has a moulded eaves cornice and three wall-head stacks. All buildings have slate roofs.
Local climate
Sun Hotel, Kirk 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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