169 High Street, Biggar is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Commercial building.

169 High Street, Biggar

WRENN ID
first-pier-claret
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 May 1980
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
NT 043 378
Coordinates
55.62505, -3.52098
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

169 High Street in Biggar is a mid-19th century building that stands two storeys tall. It is constructed from ashlar stone with raised margins and features a slate roof that is hipped at one end. The ground floor has a central door flanked by windows, while the first floor has two windows. The gable end is rendered and includes one window on each floor, along with a wall head stack and a band course.

Local climate

169 High Street, 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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