Cornhill House is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1979. House. 6 related planning applications.
Cornhill House
- WRENN ID
- late-moat-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cornhill House, ML12 6QE
- OS grid reference
- NT 018 352
- Coordinates
- 55.6012, -3.56002
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cornhill House was designed by William Leiper for Alexander Kay in 1871, incorporating a previous house from around 1840 at the southeast. This building showcases early French Gothic architecture. It is constructed of snecked rubble and features a two-storey section with a three-storey and attic tower at the northern angle. The northeast entrance elevation includes a two-storey section with an angle turret and a projecting round-arched porch. The earlier two-storey, three-window classic villa to the southeast has a pedimented anta doorpiece, made of whinstone with freestone dressings, and a piended slated roof.
Leiper also added single-storey outbuildings to the southwest, which are partly circular with a conical roof. The northern angle tower features a circular corner turret with a conical roof that is corbelled from a squat angle shaft. It has cantilever-balconied second-floor windows, a truncated pyramid roof with stone dormers, and tall chimney stacks. The platform of the tower is adorned with wrought-iron cresting.
The northwest elevation has a canted front that transitions to a circular shape at the first floor, featuring an oriel window with a spired roof. The southwest elevation includes a large canted bay, also with a spired roof, both sections having hoodmoulded round-arched windows on the ground floor, colonnettes, and pendant double-arch sinkings in the lintels at the first floor, topped with a quatrefoiled parapet. The lower two-storey southeast wing has tall slated roofs with elaborate wrought-iron finials.
Local climate
Cornhill House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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