Gasworks, Gasworks Road, Biggar is a Grade A listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Industrial. 1 related planning application.
Gasworks, Gasworks Road, Biggar
- WRENN ID
- eastward-zinc-tide
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1980
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Gasworks, Gasworks Road, Biggar, ML12 6BZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 038 376
- Coordinates
- 55.62323, -3.52794
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gasworks on Gasworks Road in Biggar was established by a joint stock company starting in 1839. The main structures are built of stone and include several notable features. The Exhauster House, dating from around 1914, contains a condenser that is likely original to the plant from that year. The Retort House, constructed in 1912, features nine hand-fired horizontal retorts made by Westwood and Wright Ltd of Brierley Hill.
There are two gasholders on the site; the original gasholder has been recently rebuilt but still retains its early triform latticed hoisting posts. The second gasholder was rebuilt in 1914. Additionally, there are castings for water tanks located under the gasholders that date from an earlier period.
Local climate
Gasworks, Gasworks Road, 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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- 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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