Morris House, 1-3 Markethill Road, East Kilbride is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1979. Cottage.

Morris House, 1-3 Markethill Road, East Kilbride

WRENN ID
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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
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 634 549
Coordinates
55.76891, -4.17786
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Morris House, located at 1-3 Markethill Road in East Kilbride, is an 18th-century single-storey building with five bays. It is constructed from squared and snecked rubble with raised margins.

On the south elevation, there are three single windows on the right, followed by a door and another single window. The north elevation features four irregularly spaced windows, which are protected by gauze. The east elevation has a single window in the right bay, also with protective mesh.

The building has modern glazing and a grey slate roof with straight skews. It includes distinctive scrolled skewputs, which may have been reused from another location, as well as short coped stacks at the wallheads and one in the center of the roof.

Local climate

Morris House, 1-3 Markethill Road, 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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