West Machan House, 10 St Margaret's Place, Larkhall is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. House. 2 related planning applications.
West Machan House, 10 St Margaret's Place, Larkhall
- WRENN ID
- peeling-kitchen-grove
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Machan House, 10 St Margaret's Place, Larkhall, ML9 2HG
- OS grid reference
- NS 765 510
- Coordinates
- 55.7371, -3.96776
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Machan House, located at 10 St Margaret's Place in Larkhall, is an earlier 19th century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay, symmetrical rectangular-plan building designed in a plain classical style, featuring gabled ends. The exterior is made of droved painted sandstone with polished painted dressings, and includes a base course and an eaves course. The windows have raised cills.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set timber flush-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above it, along with a window on the first floor directly above the door. Each of the flanking bays also has a window on both floors.
The east (side) elevation features a garage awning to the left at ground level, with a window on the first floor above it and a gablehead stack above that.
The west (side) elevation has a blank gabled wall with a piended single-storey addition in the centre at ground level, and a gablehead stack above.
The house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and the addition also has a slate roof. The building features painted ashlar coped stacks, ashlar skews, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
West Machan House, 10 St Margaret's Place, Larkhall 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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