Culter Library And Reading Room, Coulter is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 June 1986.
Culter Library And Reading Room, Coulter
- WRENN ID
- tenth-sandstone-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NT 023 339
- Coordinates
- 55.58934, -3.55074
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Caretaker's Cottage, adjoining Culter Library and Reading Room in Coulter, was built in 1888. This single-storey village library has a small caretaker's cottage attached, which was enlarged at the rear in the 20th century. The building is designed in an L-plan.
The main elevation faces southeast and is constructed of whin rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings, while the flanks are rendered. The library section is to the left, featuring an advanced and finialed gable, which includes a tall pointed panel with a roll-moulded doorway and an inscription above. There are flanking lancet windows, and a decorative cast-iron porch is located in the re-entrant angle, leading to the door of the cottage. A single window is positioned to the right. The building has end stacks and a slate roof adorned with cast-iron cresting.
The property is set behind a low wall with iron railings, and the outer piers are topped with pointed panels.
Local climate
Culter Library And Reading Room, Coulter 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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