Post Office, 24 Brandon Street, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 1993. Post office.
Post Office, 24 Brandon Street, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- iron-garret-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1993
- Type
- Post office
- OS grid reference
- NS 722 553
- Coordinates
- 55.77425, -4.03778
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is an early 20th century post office located at 24 Brandon Street in Hamilton, formerly known as the Hamilton Herald building. It is a three-storey, three-bay structure with classical detailing, constructed from red ashlar. The building features channelled angle pilasters on the first floor and a steeply-pitched green slate roof that is pyramidal on the left and right, topped with a weathervane and spike finials.
The second floor has a plain frieze with decorative curvilinear panels on the outer bays, and there is a wallhead frieze with decorative corbals. The balustraded parapet has angle dies on the outer bays, and the windows are architraved with plate glass sashes and case frames.
The front elevation is slightly asymmetrical. The ground floor has a modern front, while the first floor features a four-light canted window in the center, a single window with a pilastered architrave and pediment that rises through the wallhead, and slightly advanced bays on the left and right. The left bay has a bipartite window on the first and second floors, while the right bay has a single window on both floors.
Inside, there is a First World War marble memorial panel dedicated to members of Hamilton Post Office.
Local climate
Post Office, 24 Brandon Street, 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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