54 Townhead Street, Strathaven is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1980. House.
54 Townhead Street, Strathaven
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-gable-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- East Kilbride and Strathaven MP: Joani Reid (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1980
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 699 444
- Coordinates
- 55.67568, -4.0702
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
54 Townhead Street is a house built in the later 19th century. It is a symmetrical, two-storey structure with three bays. The exterior features painted stugged ashlar with margins. The central entrance has a recessed round-headed doorway, framed by an elaborate Ionic pilastered doorcase and a decorative, bracketed cornice.
On the ground floor, the outer bays contain canted, four-light round-headed windows with apron panels. The door and window jambs and mullions are adorned with slender shafts that have foliated caps. The first floor has a bipartite window, flanked by shallow, advanced tripartite windows, also with slender shafts and outer shafts featuring foliated caps. The house is topped with a bracketed cornice, end stacks, and a piended slate roof.
Local climate
54 Townhead Street, Strathaven sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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.
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