Steading With Horse-Engine House, Cornhill is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1991.
Steading With Horse-Engine House, Cornhill
- WRENN ID
- fossil-buttress-ivory
- 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
- 55.60237, -3.55343
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The steading and horse-engine house at Cornhill Farm were built around 1871, designed by William Leiper for Cornhill House, which had been constructed by Alex Kay. Cornhill House was served by this Home Farm. This is one of two steading complexes known to have been designed by Leiper; the other is at Glendarvel House in Argyll and Bute.
The farmhouse is a single-storey and attic structure built of random rubble with sandstone dressings. The elevation facing the roadway has three bays, each with an open eaved gable. An entrance is located to the left of the centre bay. The left bay includes a timber-mullioned and transomed canted bay window on the ground floor, while the centre and right bays feature wooden, mullioned and transomed bipartites with relieving arches above, all having a cill course. Attic windows are bipartites with mullions and a cill course in each gable. A porch with a catslide roof is situated to the right.
The steading is a U-plan, single-storey and attic block, incorporating a horse engine house and a detached barn. The construction is of random rubble with sandstone dressings, and the fenestration is irregular. The centre range has prominent skylights, and the inner faces of the side ranges feature 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 on 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.
All roofs are slated, with open eaves and prominent rafter ends.
Local climate
Steading With Horse-Engine House, 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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