72 High Street, Biggar is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
72 High Street, Biggar
- WRENN ID
- young-pewter-snow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- 72 High Street, Biggar, ML12 6BJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 040 377
- Coordinates
- 55.62383, -3.52453
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
72 High Street in Biggar is a mid-19th century building that stands two storeys tall. It is constructed of ashlar stone with raised and chamfered margins. The front of the building is symmetrical with three windows and features a band course above the ground floor and an eaves course. The original glazing remains intact on the first floor. Each gable end, to the northeast and southwest, has three windows, some of which are blocked, along with one small round-headed single light above. The roof is slate, hipped at the front with straight skews on the end gables, and there are corniced stacks at each end. An additional block is located at the rear.
Local climate
72 High Street, Biggar 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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