1-2 Kemp Street, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 1993. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

1-2 Kemp Street, Hamilton

WRENN ID
tired-timber-autumn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 May 1993
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NS 722 551
Coordinates
55.77282, -4.03769
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-2 Kemp Street in Hamilton is a three-storey tenement built in 1904, showcasing the 'Glasgow style'. It is located on a corner site and features shops on the ground floor, along with an angle turret. The building is constructed from cream sandstone ashlar and includes a partially corbelled cornice at the ground floor, as well as a wallhead course. The windows are a mix of single, bipartite, and three-light canted designs, all with original sash and case glazing; the bottom sections have plate glass, while the top sections feature four- and six-pane designs. The chimney stacks are corniced and topped with uniform terracotta cans.

On the Quarry Street elevation, there is a modern shopfront at the ground floor. Above, a single window is flanked by two corniced bipartite windows on the first floor, with a similar arrangement on the second floor, although those windows are not corniced and have diamond-patterned aprons. To the right, there is an angle bay with a central door that retains remnants of a decorative pediment, although the doorpiece has been removed. An oriel window on the upper floors is rounded at the first floor, with decorative corbels supporting a polygonal second floor and a blocked parapet. The octagonal turret is set back and features oval windows and a finialled domical roof, with outshot stacks on both sides rising from the ground floor cornice through the wallhead.

The Kemp Street elevation also has a modern shopfront at the ground floor, with a single pedimented window on the first floor and another single window above. To the right, there is a two-storey canted window with a raised parapet.

The interior of the building has not been seen.

Local climate

1-2 Kemp Street, Hamilton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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