Commercial Bank, 86-88 Cadzow Street, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 September 1979. Commercial.

Commercial Bank, 86-88 Cadzow Street, Hamilton

WRENN ID
riven-rafter-hemlock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 September 1979
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
NS 723 556
Coordinates
55.77702, -4.03679
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Commercial Bank, located at 86-88 Cadzow Street in Hamilton, was built around 1840 and showcases a late classical architectural style. The building is two stories high and constructed of painted ashlar stone, featuring broad raised margins. Its symmetrical front has three windows and a central panelled door that is deeply recessed within a plain architrave. This door is topped by a rectangular fanlight and a denticulated cornice.

The ground floor has architraves with recessed aprons, while the lugged architraves are raised at the center of the lintel. The building is capped with a balustraded parapet adorned with four urns. It has a slated roof and a corniced ashlar stack that is shared with the building above.

Local climate

Commercial Bank, 86-88 Cadzow 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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