Fairholm is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 June 1979. House.
Fairholm
- WRENN ID
- under-mullion-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 754 514
- Coordinates
- 55.74074, -3.9862
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fairholm is an 18th-century house that underwent early Victorian enlargement. It is a lower two-storey building with five windows on the right side, featuring a flying arch over the basement that leads to a solid Tuscan porch. To the left, there is a two-bay extension with a tall three-storey Italianate tower. This tower has bracketed eaves, corner pilasters, arched windows on the upper floors, and bipartite windows on the ground and first floors, along with a shallow bay to the left.
Local climate
Fairholm 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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