Tollhouse, Lanark Racecourse is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 September 1994. Tollhouse.

Tollhouse, Lanark Racecourse

WRENN ID
gilded-lead-swift
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 September 1994
Type
Tollhouse
OS grid reference
NS 900 425
Coordinates
55.66439, -3.74874
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Tollhouse at Lanark Racecourse, built around 1820 by engineer Thomas Telford, is a single-storey structure with three bays, constructed from sandstone and topped with a Scotch slate roof.

The front elevation features ashlar stonework, with coursed rubble at the base of the side bays. The central bay is symmetrical and bowed, containing a door flanked by single windows, and is topped with a conical roof that has a cast-iron finial. The side bays include windows set in shallow recesses and are capped with plain coped chimney stacks.

The side and rear elevations are made of rubble with dressed quoins. At the southern end, there is a short wing with a piend roof, along with lean-to and flat-roofed modern extensions that are roughcast. The building has open verges with plain bargeboards.

Local climate

Tollhouse, Lanark Racecourse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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