8 Sinclair's Hill is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. 2 related planning applications.
8 Sinclair's Hill
- WRENN ID
- hollow-attic-crow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Address
- 8 Sinclair's Hill, TD11 3LU
- OS grid reference
- NT 815 507
- Coordinates
- 55.74949, -2.29576
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7 Sinclair's Hill and the Former Smithy is a picturesque row of irregular paired, single-storey and attic estate cottages and a smithy, dating from the earlier to mid 19th century. Built in the Cotswold Tudor vernacular style, the structures are made of roughly squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and deeply chamfered arrises. The smithy is located to the outer left.
Number 7, situated at the center, features a gabled stone porch supported by Jacobean battered columns. To the right, there is a slightly advanced tripartite window, with a gabled stone dormer above it. To the left, a timber-mullioned tripartite window is complemented by a stone wallhead dormer above, which also has further tripartite windows.
Number 8, located to the outer right, has a gabled porch at its center, with a slightly advanced four-light window to the right and a tripartite window in a stone gabled dormer above. To the left, there is a tripartite window and a bipartite gabled stone dormer above it. An advanced gabled bay to the outer right features a tripartite window at ground level (with replacement mullions) and a carved ribbon bearing the name 'Sinclair's Hill' below a bipartite window in the gablehead above, as well as a bipartite window on the return to the left. There is a substantial modern addition to the rear.
The smithy has a gabled outer wing to the left, which mirrors that to the right. It includes a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window above, with a carved horse-shoe relief over the attic window. There is a door on the return to the left, flanked by tripartite windows, and a window on the return to the right.
The buildings feature plate glass glazing, primarily in timber sash and case windows (some of which have been replaced), and diamond-pane glazing in the sash and case windows of the smithy. The roofs are covered with graded grey slates, including 19th-century rooflights and modern Velux windows. The structures have sawtooth coping to the skews and bracketed skewputts, with stone ridges and stacks featuring battered coping.
Local climate
8 Sinclair's Hill receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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