Lanark County Buildings, Almada Street, Hamilton is a Grade A listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 1993. Civic building. 5 related planning applications.
Lanark County Buildings, Almada Street, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- brooding-passage-starling
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1993
- Type
- Civic building
- Address
- Lanark County Buildings, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0AA
- OS grid reference
- NS 714 558
- Coordinates
- 55.77912, -4.05081
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lanark County Buildings, located on Almada Street in Hamilton, were designed by D G Bannerman from the Lanark County Architects' department and constructed between 1959 and 1964. This complex features a monumental 17-storey tower block that rises 200 feet, with its east and west gables clad in white ceramic mosaics. The north and south facades are made of anodised aluminium curtain walling, which includes horizontally-banded sections for the office spaces and vertically-lined sections for the lift hall and two catering floors.
Inside, the building is organized around a north-south corridor that connects directly to the tower block. On the west side of this corridor, there are several committee rooms, and at the northern end, the corridor opens into a circular Council Chamber. This chamber features vertical split windows that alternate with precast concrete units and has a public entrance at the southernmost point. Inside the Council Chamber, there are stepped rows of desks that rise towards the south.
The complex is set within a monumental entrance plaza that includes paving, lawns, pools, and fountains. A bridge connects Almada Street to the main entrance, and access is also provided by a ramp from Beckford Street.
Local climate
Lanark County Buildings, Almada Street, Hamilton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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