Clinkscales Organ Studio, Abbey Street, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Studio.

Clinkscales Organ Studio, Abbey Street, Melrose

WRENN ID
half-quartz-foxglove
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
Studio
OS grid reference
NT 547 340
Coordinates
55.59755, -2.71901
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Clinkscales Organ Studio is an earlier 19th-century building located on Abbey Street in Melrose. It is two storeys high and has four bays. The entrance is situated in the left centre bay, while the ground floor windows have been enlarged, and there is a modern shop front to the right. The ground floor is constructed of coursed squared rubble with polished dressings. The first floor is partially rendered, and the windows still feature their original 12-pane double sash glazing. The building has a cornice and blocking course, with straight skews and a harled rectangular coped stack on the north side. The roof is slated.

Local climate

Clinkscales Organ Studio, Abbey 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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