3-5 Castle Street, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 1993. Bank. 3 related planning applications.
3-5 Castle Street, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-eave-swift
- 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
- Bank
- Address
- 3-5 Castle Street, Hamilton, ML3 6BU
- OS grid reference
- NS 725 555
- Coordinates
- 55.77634, -4.03365
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3-5 Castle Street in Hamilton is a former bank building designed by Gavin Paterson in 1899, showcasing a three-storey Beaux-Arts style on a corner site. The exterior features tooled red ashlar stone and a slate roof, with a deep polished Peterhead granite base course, string course, and cill course at the first floor. The building has a cartouche-corbelled cornice at the angle parapet and a chamfered wallhead cornice facing Castle Street. Each elevation is topped with coped crowstepped chimney gables, which include round-headed pilasters and corbel panels, along with corniced stacks.
The ground floor boasts large round-headed windows with moulded heads and cartouche details, while the upper floors feature single and bipartite architraved windows, complete with consoled balconies facing Cadzow Street and the angle bays. The glazing is mostly sash and case, with plate glass on the bottom and multi-pane on the top. An octagonal angle turret is adorned with keystoned round windows, demi-columns at the corners, a bracketed cornice, and a facetted conical roof. The cast-iron rainwater goods include decorative hoppers.
On the Cadzow Street elevation, there is a door at the splayed angle on the right, featuring a demi-columned segmental doorcase. To the left is a round-headed door leading to a close, which has a keystoned hoodmould and cartouche label stops. The centre has two large round-headed windows, with two bipartite windows on the first and second floors, and a rounded angle window to the right that is pointed at the second floor.
The Castle Street elevation has the main block on the left, with a large round-headed window at the centre left, a richly architraved window to the left, and three large windows to the right. There are four windows of various designs on the first and second floors. The block steps down to the right, where there is an altered bar front on the ground floor and a single window with a round-headed pilaster panel to the right, flanked by bipartite windows on the first and second floors. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
3-5 Castle 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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