Barncluith Tower, Barncluith House, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. 1 related planning application.

Barncluith Tower, Barncluith House, Hamilton

WRENN ID
deep-span-sparrow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
OS grid reference
NS 730 544
Coordinates
55.7671, -4.02563
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Barncluith Tower, built around 1538 by John Hamilton, is located at Barncluith House in Hamilton.

Local climate

Barncluith Tower, Barncluith House, 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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