Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

4 AND 6 BLOOMGATELB36937

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
07/05/1980
Supplementary Information Updated
31/08/2020
Local Authority
South Lanarkshire
Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Burgh
Lanark
NGR
NS 88121 43691
Coordinates
288121, 643691

Description

Predominantly late-18th century but incorporating earlier fabric. Four-bay, three-storey traditional burgh building with attic that incorporates a wide round-arched pend to No. 6, leading to Wide Close vennel. There are two later shop units on the ground floor and residential units on the upper floors.

The painted rendered main (south) elevation fronts Bloomgate on Lanark High Street and features small window openings with raised margins and timber sash and case windows. The pitched slate roof has two canted dormers to the front pitch and later brick and rendered chimneys to the end gables. A two-storey range on Wide Close abuts to the rear of No.4 (No.2 Wide Close) and a single and two-storey mono-pitched range abuts to the rear of No.6.

Statement of Special Interest

Located on a principal thoroughfare within the historic core of Lanark, the building is prominent in the streetscape. Displaying good proportions, it is an important surviving example of burgh architecture from the late 18th century.

The pend to Wide Close forms part of 4 and 6 Bloomgate. Connecting Bloomgate to North Vennel, this former port or gateway is of historical significance because it was a controlled entrance into the Royal Burgh. It was one of the four town gates (West Port, East Port, Wellgate and Castlegate) and it is of special interest as a surviving fragment of an early historic gateway in a Scottish burgh.

Listed building record revised in 2020.

References

Bibliography

Canmore: http://canmore.org.uk/ CANMORE ID 269222

Canmore: http://canmore.org.uk/ CANMORE ID 46612 '6 Broomgate' [sic]

Maps

Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1858, published 1860) Large scale town plan (Lanark). 1:500. 1st Edition. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1857, published 1860) Lanarkshire XXV.15 (Lanark). 25 inches to the mile. 1st Edition. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Printed Sources

Close R. et al. (2016) The Buildings of Scotland: Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire. Yale University Press. (p.375)

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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