5, 7 Bridge Street, Kelso is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Commercial building.

5, 7 Bridge Street, Kelso

WRENN ID
crumbling-cellar-flax
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 March 1971
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
NT 727 338
Coordinates
55.59772, -2.43381
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5 and 7 Bridge Street in Kelso is a building from the later 18th century that was altered in the late 19th century. Originally, it had seven bays and two storeys, but it was raised to three storeys during the late 19th century.

On the ground floor, there are paired pilasters at the ends that may date back to an earlier or mid-19th century shop front. The broad canted bay and the central door, which features an oversailing cornice supported by brackets, are later 19th-century additions. The upper floors are rendered and have rusticated angle quoins and moulded window architraves. The centre window has been altered to include a Venetian moulded architrave, which appears to have been inserted in the middle of the new second floor, while the other windows on this floor have plain margins. The building has a cornice at the wallhead, straight skews, brick stacks, and a slated roof.

Local climate

5, 7 Bridge Street, Kelso receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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