Steading, Cornhill is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1991.
Steading, Cornhill
- WRENN ID
- upper-loggia-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1991
- OS grid reference
- NT 022 354
- Coordinates
- 55.60261, -3.5535
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The steading and farmhouse at Cornhill were built around 1871 for Alex Kay, as the Home Farm to Cornhill House. The complex was designed by William Leiper, and is one of two known steading designs attributed to him; the other is at Glendarvel House in Argyll and Bute.
The farmhouse is a single-storey and attic structure built of random rubble with sandstone dressings. The elevation to the roadway is three bays, with each bay featuring an open eaved gable. An entrance is located to the left of the centre bay. A timber-mullioned and transomed canted bay is present on the ground floor of the left bay, while the centre and right bays have wooden, mullioned and transomed bipartites, each with relieving arches above and a cill course. All gables feature bipartites with mullions and a cill course. A catslide roofed porch is situated to the right.
The steading is arranged in a U-plan, consisting of a single-storey and attic block, a horse engine house, and a detached barn. It is built of random rubble with sandstone dressings and features irregular fenestration. The central range has prominent skylights, while the inner faces of the side ranges display gablet ventilators. The threshing barn has a dormer hoist door under a slated gable on its outer face.
The horse engine house has a polygonal roof supported by stone piers, with wide openings, and abuts the threshing barn. The detached barn has a stone base, two tiers of slit ventilators, a vertically slatted wooden band below a piended roof, and is linked to the main range by later buildings.
All roofs are slated, with open eaves and prominent rafter ends. The steading also features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Steading, Cornhill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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