Mains Of Glins is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 September 1973. House.

Mains Of Glins

WRENN ID
crooked-bastion-jet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 September 1973
Type
House
OS grid reference
NS 633 910
Coordinates
56.0924, -4.19762
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mains of Glins is a building dated 1743, with a later addition and restored in the late 20th century. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and features a five-bay main block alongside a single-storey, three-bay addition to the west, creating a long rectangular plan. The principal (north) elevation of the main block is symmetrical, featuring a Gibbs surround at the entrance. The building is harled with sandstone ashlar dressings and has an eaves cornice, flush architraves around the openings, and strip quoins at the corners. The main block has coped gables with moulded skewputts.

On the north elevation, the central entrance has a Gibbs surround and a keystone inscribed 'MB MG 1743', with a replacement two-leaf panelled timber door. There are windows in the paired flanking bays on both the ground and first floors, with one window above. The single-storey addition to the right has a window in each of its three bays. A modern walled yard is adjacent to the outer right.

The south elevation has irregularly placed windows on the main block, with four on the ground and first floors; the first-floor window on the outer left is larger. There are two rooflights in the attic and two windows in the single-storey addition to the left. A modern walled yard is also adjacent to the outer left.

The east elevation features a window to the right of the first floor and a small attic window in the gable. The west elevation has an entrance with a replacement part-glazed door at the gable end of the single-storey extension.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and grey slate roofs. There are gablehead stacks with moulded coping at either end of the main block, each with round cans.

Local climate

Mains Of Glins sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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