Watch House, Churchyard, Symington Parish Church, Kirk Bauk, Symington is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Watch-house.
Watch House, Churchyard, Symington Parish Church, Kirk Bauk, Symington
- WRENN ID
- solitary-step-crimson
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Type
- Watch-house
- OS grid reference
- NS 998 351
- Coordinates
- 55.59947, -3.59068
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Watch House, located in the churchyard of Symington Parish Church on Kirk Bauk, is a small single-storey gabled structure built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. The building features steps leading to a timber door and has a narrow single slit-window to the left, along with another small window on the east gable. The roof is covered with grey slate, and it has cast-iron rainwater goods.
The churchyard is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall and contains a notable collection of gravestones that predate the 19th century.
Local climate
Watch House, Churchyard, Symington Parish Church, Kirk Bauk, Symington 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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