Council Offices, Hope Street, Lanark is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Police station.
Council Offices, Hope Street, Lanark
- WRENN ID
- sharp-cellar-marsh
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1980
- Type
- Police station
- OS grid reference
- NS 881 438
- Coordinates
- 55.67524, -3.78084
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Council Offices on Hope Street in Lanark, built around 1870, is a two-storey, three-bay police station constructed from ashlar stone. The building features channelled stonework at the ground level, as well as on the pilasters that flank the central bay and on the angle pilasters of the first floor. A shallow projecting central bay includes a door that is recessed under a plain set-back arch, which is inscribed with "County Police Station."
On either side of the central bay are two square-headed windows, all of which have channelled voussoirs. There is a band course that runs between the two storeys. The first floor has three windows, each with moulded aprons, and all windows are fitted with lying-pane glazing. The building is topped with an entablature and a central panelled parapet, which is flanked by pedestals with decorative caps.
The corniced stacks rise above the angle pilasters. The south elevation is made of ashlar and features lying-pane glazing in the windows, along with a blind window on the first floor. In contrast, the north and west elevations are constructed from rubble. The roof is piended and covered with slate.
Local climate
Council Offices, Hope Street, Lanark sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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 0.3°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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