49 High Street, Biggar is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. House.
49 High Street, Biggar
- WRENN ID
- sombre-lancet-heath
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 49 High Street, Biggar, ML12 6DA
- OS grid reference
- NT 039 377
- Coordinates
- 55.62345, -3.52606
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
49 High Street in Biggar is an 18th-century building that has undergone alterations in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It stands two storeys tall and is constructed of rubble with painted dressings and quoins on the east side. The front features a symmetrical arrangement of three windows. The roof is covered with slate and has straight skews and scroll skewputts, along with end stacks.
Local climate
49 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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