Free Church School, 4 Clyde Road, Douglas is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 December 1980. House.
Free Church School, 4 Clyde Road, Douglas
- WRENN ID
- drifting-wall-bone
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1980
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 836 308
- Coordinates
- 55.55775, -3.84654
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church School, located at 4 Clyde Road in Douglas, is a mid-19th century building featuring a two-storey L-plan design. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar margins. The section at No. 2 is positioned at a right angle to the road and consists of three bays, which include a central door, a window to the left, and a forestair on the right that leads to a modern gabled porch at the first-floor level. The left corner of this section is curved at ground level, and there are three sash windows on the first floor. The building has an eaves cornice, end stacks, and a slate roof that includes a central slated ventilator with a finial.
Additionally, there is an extension of one bay along Clyde Road to No. 4, which also features three bays, a central door framed by a roll-moulded architrave, and modern glazing on the first floor. This section also has end stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
Free Church School, 4 Clyde Road, Douglas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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