Ymca, Bloomgate, Lanark is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Community facility. 2 related planning applications.
Ymca, Bloomgate, Lanark
- WRENN ID
- roaming-crypt-auburn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1980
- Type
- Community facility
- Address
- Ymca, Bloomgate, Lanark, ML11 9EZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 880 436
- Coordinates
- 55.67375, -3.78237
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The YMCA building on Bloomgate in Lanark was designed by Mr. Kerr and completed in 1902. It is a two-storey structure featuring a three-storey tower, designed in the Scottish Baronial style. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with red sandstone quoins and dressings.
On the left side, there is a door that is recessed under a round-headed arch with deep moulded reveals. Above this door is a heavy bracketed balcony, which has ball finials, although one is missing. To the right of the door, there are two deep-set round-headed windows with a cill course, and a date stone is located in the central spandrel. A string course runs above these features.
The building has a single transomed light over the door, and to the right, there is a tripartite mullion and transom window that is topped with a stepped hoodmould under a crowstepped gable. Below the apex of this gable is a blind trefoil, along with a ball finial. The crowstepped gables are complemented by a slate roof that features decorative ridge tiles.
At the right side of the building, there is an angle tower that includes a single light on both the ground and first floors, as well as two round-headed lancets with hoodmoulds on the second floor. There are string courses separating each storey, and the tower is topped with a cornice and a conical slate roof that has an iron finial.
On the west return elevation, there is one bay that includes a door and one window, with a bipartite window on the first floor.
Local climate
Ymca, Bloomgate, Lanark sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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