78 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.
78 High Street, Biggar
- WRENN ID
- rough-lancet-thistle
- 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 041 377
- Coordinates
- 55.624, -3.52392
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
78 High Street in Biggar is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed in 1889. It features ashlar stonework with raised margins and quoins, topped by a slate roof. The ground floor has a large central segmental arched pend, flanked by a door and two windows on either side. The first floor contains seven windows, and there are three segmental-headed dormers in the roof. All openings are segmentally arched, and the first-floor windows have corbelled sills.
Local climate
78 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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