Historic house · East Kilbride · South Lanarkshire

Hunter House Museum

Hunter House Museum is a former museum. East Kilbride has it inside its locality. It holds the status of a category A listed building.

Photo: Hunter House Museum, Iain Thompson (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In East Kilbride

inside the locality

How well known

Top 28%

#2,392 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jul–Aug

highs of 18–18°C

In brief

Historic house in East Kilbride

Inside East Kilbride

Hunter House Museum is inside East Kilbride’s locality, with 7 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Category A listed building

On the official list of protected heritage; East Kilbride has 45 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Seasons and weather

Highs in East Kilbride reach 18°C in July and August.

Jan6° / 1°150 mm

Feb7° / 1°121 mm

Mar8° / 2°103 mm

Apr11° / 3°69 mm

May15° / 6°73 mm

Jun17° / 9°77 mm

Jul18° / 11°92 mm

Aug18° / 10°103 mm

Sep16° / 9°101 mm

Oct12° / 6°140 mm

Nov9° / 3°135 mm

Dec6° / 1°153 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in East Kilbride, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for East Kilbride. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. East Kilbride’s full climate →

About

Hunter House Museum

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 3 languages. A short trip away is Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 13 km off, the first of 100 within 15 km.

East Kilbride’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Historic house
Listed: Category A listed building
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in East Kilbride
Official site: southlanarkshire.gov.uk/directory_record/56818/hunter_house_museum

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Finding Hunter House Museum

On this map, Hunter House Museum is orange and its neighbours are numbered.

Towns near it

Towns that list Hunter House Museum

The most populous of the 7 is Glasgow, at 617,904. Its own town leads; the rest list it too, closest first.

1 · It’s in town

East Kilbride

76,626 people · 16 places to visit

2 · 2.1 km northeast of it

Blantyre

16,534 people · 13 places to visit

3 · 2.4 km east of it

Hamilton

55,171 people · 15 places to visit

4 · 3.3 km north of it

Cambuslang

33,250 people · 35 places to visit

Compare the 7 towns

Town	Where Hunter House Museum is	People	Places to visit
East Kilbride	It’s in town	76,626	16
Blantyre	2.1 km northeast of it	16,534	13
Hamilton	2.4 km east of it	55,171	15
Cambuslang	3.3 km north of it	33,250	35
Rutherglen	3.5 km northwest of it	31,185	51
Bothwell	4.6 km northeast of it	7,002	13
Glasgow	4.8 km northwest of it	617,904	101

Make a day of it

Pair Hunter House Museum with these

Around it, within 15 km, lie 100 more, including 4 museums, 2 cathedrals and a castle.

Big drawMuseumKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum13 km away · 1M visitors a year 2

CathedralGlasgow Cathedral11 km away 3

MuseumGlasgow School of Art12 km away 4

Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandBothwell Castle5 km away 5

Big drawMuseumRiverside Museum14 km away · 1.1M visitors a year (2015)6

Big drawArt galleryGallery of Modern Art11 km away · 596K visitors a year 7

CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral11 km away 8

MuseumPeople's Palace9.9 km away · 290K visitors a year

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Hunter House Museum: what to know

Where is Hunter House Museum?

Hunter House Museum is in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, inside the town’s locality.

What is Hunter House Museum?

Former museum in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.

When is the best time to visit Hunter House Museum?

July and August are the warmest months in East Kilbride, with afternoon highs of 18–18°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Hunter House Museum a listed building?

Yes: category A listed building.

What else is there to see near Hunter House Museum?

Within 15 km: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (13 km), Glasgow Cathedral (11 km), Glasgow School of Art (12 km) and Bothwell Castle (5 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Hunter House Museum: Iain Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Glasgow Cathedral: Bewahrerderwerte, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Glasgow School of Art: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bothwell Castle: James Mérigot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Riverside Museum: Cutkiller2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Gallery of Modern Art: BrainiacBlink, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Andrew's Cathedral: Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
People's Palace: Emmi Hakka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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