The Kings Arms Hotel, High Street, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Hotel. 9 related planning applications.

The Kings Arms Hotel, High Street, Melrose

WRENN ID
grim-oriel-oak
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 March 1971
Type
Hotel
Address
The Kings Arms Hotel, High Street, Melrose, TD6 9PB
OS grid reference
NT 546 340
Coordinates
55.59802, -2.72117
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Kings Arms Hotel, located on High Street in Melrose, is an earlier 19th century building that stands three stories tall with an attic and features four bays. The front is constructed of coursed squared rubble with droved ashlar dressings, including cill and band courses. There is a painted Tuscan columned doorpiece in the left-centre bay, with a door in the right-hand bay. The glazing at the ground floor has been renewed, but otherwise, the building has 12-pane double sash windows. It is topped with a moulded cornice and blocking course, has straight skews, and features a pair of gabled dormers in the attic. The roof is slated. At the rear, there is a long, single-storey former stable range.

Local climate

The Kings Arms Hotel, High Street, Melrose receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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