Town House, High Street, Peebles is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Town house, corn exchange.
Town House, High Street, Peebles
- WRENN ID
- small-newel-shade
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- Type
- Town house, corn exchange
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 404
- Coordinates
- 55.65153, -3.18981
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a classical town house located on High Street in Peebles, dated 1753. It is two stories high with three bays and features a former corn exchange built in 1860 at the rear. The exterior is finished in cream harl with pink sandstone ashlar dressings. Architectural details include a base course, a banded impost course at the ground floor, a banded cill course at the first floor, an eaves cornice, angle margins, and first-floor windows with shouldered mouldings.
The north (front) elevation is symmetrical, featuring two depressed-arched pends in the outer bays, with the right bay now infilled with modern glazing, framing a central window. The fenestration above is regular. A central bracketed pediment breaks the eaves, adorned with ball finials and a shield displaying Peebles' arms and the date.
On the south (rear) elevation, there is a tall single-storey former corn exchange that projects at a right angle, with tall windows that are now blocked and other openings. A small arched belfry is located at the end gable.
The front block has 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof of the town house is covered with purple slates and features both piend and platformed designs, while the corn exchange has swept skewputts.
The interior was not seen in 1994.
Local climate
Town House, High Street, Peebles sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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