Steading, Cornhill is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1991.
Steading, Cornhill
- WRENN ID
- stony-frieze-swift
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1991
- OS grid reference
- NT 022 354
- Coordinates
- 55.6024, -3.55323
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The steading and farmhouse at Cornhill, circa 1871, were designed by William Leiper for Cornhill House, built by Alex Kay. Cornhill House was served by this Home Farm. This is one of two steadings known to have been designed by Leiper; the other is at Glendarvel House, Kilmodan, Argyll and Bute.
The farmhouse is a single-storey and attic structure built of random rubble with sandstone dressings. The elevation to the roadway is three-bayed, with each bay featuring an open-eaved gable. An entrance is located to the left of the centre bay. The left bay has a timber-mullioned and transomed canted bay on the ground floor, while the centre and right bays feature wooden, mullioned and transomed bipartites with relieving arches above and a cill course. All gables have bipartites with mullions and a cill course. A porch with a catslide roof is situated to the right.
The steading is a U-plan, single-storey and attic block that includes a horse engine house and a detached barn. It is constructed of random rubble with sandstone dressings and has irregular fenestration. The centre range of the steading is notable for its prominent skylights, while the inner faces of the side ranges have gablet ventilators. The threshing barn has a dormer hoist door under a slated gable on its outer face.
The horse engine house has a polygonal roof supported by stone piers with wide openings, and it abuts the threshing barn. The detached barn has a stone base with two tiers of slit ventilators, a vertically slatted wooden band below a piended roof, and is linked to the main range by later buildings.
All roofs are slated, with open eaves and prominent rafter ends. The buildings demonstrate stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Steading, Cornhill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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