4-8 High Street is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. 4 related planning applications.
4-8 High Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-barrel-claret
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- Address
- 4-8 High Street, TD1 1SD
- OS grid reference
- NT 491 362
- Coordinates
- 55.61699, -2.80935
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 High Street is a multi-use commercial building constructed in 1927, featuring three and four storeys with upper breaking eaves. It is a corner block consisting of three bays on Channel Street and two bays extending seven bays along High Street.
On the Channel Street side, the building has a prominent polygonal corner tower topped with a polygonal roof and overhanging eaves. There is a two-storey canted bay on the outer right and a mock half-timbered attic storey. The exterior is made of squared buff sandstone with ashlar dressings, and the ground floor features plate glass shopfronts. A tiled stall riser and a band course at the base of the attic floor are also present. The steeply-pitched slate roof is slightly bell-cast and adorned with clay ridge tiles.
The High Street block consists of seven irregular bays, including a corner bay that returns to Overhaugh Street. This section is constructed of red sandstone with ashlar dressings. The ground floor has plate-glass shopfronts and channelled ashlar. To the left, there are large plate glass windows on the first floor with a continuous steel lintel, while the right side features single and bipartite windows. The roof includes pitch-roofed barge-boarded dormers with slated cheeks. The corner block has a blind bell-cote feature and a square mansard roof with iron brattishing, all topped with a purple slate roof and clay ridge tiles.
Access to the interior was limited during the resurvey in 2005, allowing only small areas to be examined.
Local climate
4-8 High Street receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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