Covington Manse is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 April 1980.
Covington Manse
- WRENN ID
- western-barrel-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1980
- OS grid reference
- NS 974 397
- Coordinates
- 55.64015, -3.63071
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Covington Manse is a house built around 1820. It was later enlarged in the Victorian period. The house is notable as the birthplace of Baron Watson of Thankerton. Details of the building’s appearance are provided in Glasgow and Lanarkshire Illustrated, page 134.
Local climate
Covington Manse 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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