Queen's Head Hotel, 24 Bridge Street, Kelso is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Queen's Head Hotel, 24 Bridge Street, Kelso
- WRENN ID
- rooted-cobalt-evening
- 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
- Queen's Head Hotel, 24 Bridge Street, Kelso, TD5 7JD
- OS grid reference
- NT 727 338
- Coordinates
- 55.59763, -2.43333
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Queen's Head Hotel, located at 24 Bridge Street in Kelso, is a building from the later 18th century with some additions from the early 19th century. It stands three stories tall with an attic and features four bays. The exterior is rendered and includes an engaged Tuscan porch at the left center bay, rusticated ashlar quoins, and painted, chamfered, and moulded window margins. A cornice runs along the wall-head, and the building has straight skews and a slated roof that includes two piended canted dormers in the attic. The flanks are harled. At the rear, facing Abbey Row, there are inserted windows, and the central segmental-headed close entry has a pilastered doorpiece. The first floor features tripartite windows at the outer bays, constructed of painted rubble, and the building has a piended slated roof.
Local climate
Queen's Head Hotel, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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