Courthouse, 12-14 Montgomery Street, East Kilbride is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1979. Courthouse. 1 related planning application.
Courthouse, 12-14 Montgomery Street, East Kilbride
- WRENN ID
- stranded-step-peregrine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- East Kilbride and Strathaven MP: Joani Reid (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1979
- Type
- Courthouse
- OS grid reference
- NS 635 545
- Coordinates
- 55.76532, -4.17597
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at 12-14 Montgomery Street in East Kilbride is a late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay former courthouse, which includes ranges and outbuildings at the rear. It features a base course, a first-floor band course, a cornice course, and quoins at the corners. The exterior is made of painted rubble with painted and raised margins.
On the west elevation, which is the principal front, there is a central door flanked by large single windows, with regular fenestration above on the first floor. The south elevation has two windows in the outer bays at ground level and a single window in the left bay on the first floor, with an outbuilding attached at the rear. The east elevation is connected to the outbuildings, while the north elevation has a blocked window in the right bay at ground level and a single window above on the first floor. The building has modern glazing and a slate roof with straight skews and coped stacks at the gable ends.
To the east, there is an L-plan range that is also made of painted rubble with painted margins. This two-storey T-plan building has a door in the left bay of the west face, flanked by a window, with two single windows above. The south face features a gable end with a window in the centre on the first floor and a small window in the attic. The north range has a single window on the first floor. The west face includes a lean-to porch with a door and attached buildings at right angles to the right side, featuring two openings on the end elevation.
The outbuildings are two-storey with M-gabled roofs, constructed of painted rubble and topped with a corrugated-iron roof. The west face has an entrance door in the right bay at ground level, a small window in the centre, and a large double door, which was an old coach entrance, to the left. There is a hayloft opening in the centre of the first floor. The north face is attached to the east range of the main block, while the east face has a single-storey lean-to.
The interior of 14 Montgomery Street is currently an off-licence, while the interior of 12 Montgomery Street was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
Courthouse, 12-14 Montgomery Street, East Kilbride 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 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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