16 South Back Road, Biggar is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 1980. House.
16 South Back Road, Biggar
- WRENN ID
- noble-slate-ochre
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 043 377
- Coordinates
- 55.62401, -3.52121
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 16 South Back Road in Biggar, dates from around 1860 and is a single-storey structure. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. The front features a recess with a bipartite window and three advanced gables. The central gable is coped and topped with a finial, with a door located underneath it. There are two flanking gables, also coped, each with end stacks. The west gable has a square opening, while the east gable features one oculus. The east elevation includes two windows (one bipartite), a door, and two additional windows.
Local climate
16 South Back Road, 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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