Corn Exchange, High Street, Biggar is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. Exchange. 2 related planning applications.

Corn Exchange, High Street, Biggar

WRENN ID
lost-loft-twilight
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 May 1980
Type
Exchange
Address
Corn Exchange, High Street, Biggar, ML12 6DH
OS grid reference
NT 042 378
Coordinates
55.62442, -3.52165
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Corn Exchange in Biggar, designed by architect David McGibbon in a Baronial style, dates from 1860. This two-storey building is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The central entrance has a door with a four-centred arched head and an ogee hood mould. On the ground floor, there are two depressed pointed arched windows, while the first floor has three windows set beneath a central crowstepped gablet and a coped parapet. The building is topped with coped crowstepped gables. The prominent clock tower includes a pyramidal roof, gableted louvres, and iron cresting.

Local climate

Corn Exchange, 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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