Institute, Smyllum House, Whitelees Road, Lanark is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Institute.

Institute, Smyllum House, Whitelees Road, Lanark

WRENN ID
dim-rafter-pearl
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
Institute
OS grid reference
NS 893 436
Coordinates
55.67348, -3.76038
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Smyllum House Institute, built in 1883, is located to the east of the original house and is connected to it by a screen wall. The building is two storeys high and consists of seven bays, constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings. The central entrance features a door beneath a pointed arch with a traceried fanlight above, flanked by six windows that include transoms and upper mullions. The first floor also has transomed windows, and the wallhead gable displays gothic tracery above the central window. Each gable end features tripartite windows on both floors. The building has straight skews and is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

Institute, Smyllum House, Whitelees Road, 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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