Head Post Office, Buccleuch Street, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Post office.

Head Post Office, Buccleuch Street, Melrose

WRENN ID
silver-window-hyssop
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 February 1981
Type
Post office
Address
Head Post Office, Buccleuch Street, Melrose, TD6 9LD
OS grid reference
NT 547 341
Coordinates
55.59859, -2.72033
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Head Post Office on Buccleuch Street in Melrose was built by the HM Office of Works between 1901 and 1902. This single-storey building is designed in the Free Renaissance style and constructed from snecked rubble with polished dressings. It features an off-centre door topped by an oculus and a semi-circular pediment, which integrates into a balustrade at the wall head. The building has a mullioned tripartite window in an advanced bay, with single windows in the outer bays. The roof is piended and slated, with a central rectangular chimney stack at the ridge.

Local climate

Head Post Office, Buccleuch 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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