Gaswork Manager's House, 2 Gasworks Road, Biggar is a Grade A listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Building. 1 related planning application.
Gaswork Manager's House, 2 Gasworks Road, Biggar
- WRENN ID
- last-gargoyle-azure
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1980
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Gaswork Manager's House, 2 Gasworks Road, Biggar, ML12 6BZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 039 376
- Coordinates
- 55.62334, -3.52742
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gaswork Manager's House on Gasworks Road in Biggar dates from around 1840. It is a one-storey building with an attic, constructed from squared coursed rubble with raised droved ashlar dressings and quoins. The eaves course is also made of ashlar, and the roof is slate with straight skews. The house features two windows that have long and short dressings with keystone blocks. Additionally, there are two later flat roof dormers.
Local climate
Gaswork Manager's House, 2 Gasworks Road, Biggar 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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