Tote Tower, Hyndford Road, Lanark Racecourse is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 October 1999. Tote tower. 1 related planning application.

Tote Tower, Hyndford Road, Lanark Racecourse

WRENN ID
white-stronghold-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 October 1999
Type
Tote tower
Address
Tote Tower, Hyndford Road, Lanark Racecourse, ML11 9AX
OS grid reference
NS 902 426
Coordinates
55.66479, -3.74643
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Tote Tower, located on Hyndford Road at Lanark Racecourse, was built in 1929 and is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a rectangular plan. The building is constructed of coursed red brick with concrete dressings, featuring a base course, a dividing band course, overhanging eaves cornice, and projecting cills.

The south elevation is symmetrical, with a broad two-leaf boarded timber door at the center of the ground floor, flanked by boarded-up windows on either side. Above, there is a bipartite window at the center of the first floor, with a large clock above it and timber indicator boards on both sides.

The east elevation is also symmetrical, featuring two boarded-up windows on the ground floor and two windows on the first floor. There is a cast-iron balcony and an emergency exit stair leading to the window on the left.

The north elevation is symmetrical as well, with an infilled opening at the center of the ground floor and a large window at the center of the first floor, flanked by single windows on either side.

The west elevation has two boarded-up windows on the ground floor and two windows on the first floor. The building includes a variety of small pane timber-framed windows, some of which are missing panes. The roof materials were not observed in 1999. The interior was also not seen in 1999.

Local climate

Tote Tower, Hyndford Road, Lanark Racecourse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 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 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Tollhouse, Lanark Racecourse Grade B 152 m
  2. Lanark-Muirkirk Railway Bridge Grade B 388 m
  3. Officers Mess, Winston Barracks, Hyndford Road Grade C 1.1 km
  4. Accommodation Block, Winston Barracks, Hyndford Road Grade B 1.1 km
  5. Crosslaw House, Home Street, Lanark Grade B 1.1 km
  6. Sergeants Mess, Winston Barracks, Hyndford Road Grade B 1.2 km
  7. Hozier House, Hyndford Road, Lanark Grade C 1.2 km
  8. Bonnington Mains Grade B 1.2 km
  9. Muirglen, Hyndford Road, Lanark Grade C 1.3 km
  10. Institute, Smyllum House, Whitelees Road, Lanark Grade B 1.3 km