Post Office, 20-22 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. 1 related planning application.
Post Office, 20-22 Brandon Street, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- spare-cobalt-dew
- 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
- 55.77424, -4.03761
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is an early 20th-century post office located at 20-22 Brandon Street in Hamilton. It is a three-storey structure with five main bays and two additional lower bays, featuring classical detailing. The exterior is finished in tooled red ashlar, while the rear is constructed of brick. The front has a piended slate roof with a ridge ventilator.
Architectural details include a moulded cill course on the ground, first, and second floors, and a corniced parapet with balustraded panels. The ground floor has round-headed top-hopper windows, with an acroterion motif on the transom of the central and centre-right windows. The other windows are architraved sash and case, with plate glass on the bottom and multi-pane glass on the top. The first-floor windows are adorned with alternate pedimented and segmental panels.
On the front elevation, there are five bays on the right side, with three windows in the center and two keystoned round-headed arched doors that have been blocked as windows in the outer bays. These doors are set within a pedimented doorcase featuring pilaster strips and composite capitals. The first floor has five windows, while the second floor has seven windows. To the left, there are two bays with two windows on the ground, first, and second floors.
Local climate
Post Office, 20-22 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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