Ross House, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 June 1979. Mansion.
Ross House, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- dusk-marble-sienna
- 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
- Mansion
- OS grid reference
- NS 739 557
- Coordinates
- 55.77876, -4.01129
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ross House in Hamilton is a massive baronial mansion originally built in 1783, with Victorian enlargements by Alexander Cullen. The garden front features a six-storey corner tower on the left and an advanced bay to the right, which includes bartizans and a first-floor oriel window. The façade is adorned with elaborate Craigievar string coursing, complete with canon spouts, gabled dormers, strapwork, and pediment overthrows above the mullioned windows. To the left, there is a half-columned porch with a cantilevered balcony. The property also includes an enclosed service courtyard with a tower.
Local climate
Ross House, 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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