24 South Back Road, Biggar is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. House.
24 South Back Road, Biggar
- WRENN ID
- ruined-obsidian-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1980
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 041 377
- Coordinates
- 55.62375, -3.52332
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24 South Back Road in Biggar is a building dating from around 1840. It has one storey and an attic, constructed from snecked rubble with rusticated ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a slate roof. The central door features a bracketed pediment, flanked by two windows that are set under hoodmoulds. There is also one later canted dormer. The building is adorned with a cornice and skewputts that are designed in the form of carved heads.
Local climate
24 South Back Road, 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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