Hamilton, Weighing Room Bothwell Road, Hamilton Park Racecourse is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 2013. Weighing room. 1 related planning application.

Hamilton, Weighing Room Bothwell Road, Hamilton Park Racecourse

WRENN ID
fallen-bastion-birch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 2013
Type
Weighing room
Address
Hamilton, Weighing Room Bothwell Road, Hamilton Park Racecourse, ML3 0DW
OS grid reference
NS 713 571
Coordinates
55.79078, -4.0526
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Weighing Room at Hamilton Park Racecourse, designed by Harold Oswald around 1926 with later additions, is a single-storey, five-bay building in a classical style. It features a large curved flat-roofed canopy that extends over the entrance, supported by rounded pilasters. The building is centrally located opposite the parade ground of the wider racecourse complex, on a site that slopes to the rear.

The central entrance door is flanked by paired windows, with additional windows at the outer ends. The roof is piended and rectangular, with a shallower pitched section at the rear that includes a large rooflight and a four-bay box dormer. There is also a later 20th-century flat-roofed section added beyond the original structure. The exterior is rendered, with projecting moulded margins around the windows and a projecting base course.

The entrance features paired timber multipane doors, and the windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there is a single rendered stack, which was formerly paired.

Inside, as seen in 2013, the main space is a large open weighing room that includes a circular and octagonal timber boarded rotunda with a rooflight at the rear. There are cast-iron fireplaces and a saddle hook in the rear changing room area.

Local climate

Hamilton, Weighing Room Bothwell Road, Hamilton Park Racecourse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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