Barclays Bank, 21-23 Woodmarket, Kelso is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 July 1980. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
Barclays Bank, 21-23 Woodmarket, Kelso
- WRENN ID
- empty-passage-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1980
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Barclays Bank, 21-23 Woodmarket, Kelso, TD5 7AT
- OS grid reference
- NT 728 339
- Coordinates
- 55.5985, -2.43274
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Barclays Bank, located at 21-23 Woodmarket in Kelso, was built around the 1850s and features an Italianate style. This two-storey building has three main bays, with a slightly recessed fourth bay on the right. The front is made of polished ashlar stone, and the central door, along with the ground floor windows, are round-headed. These windows have key blocks that are intricately carved with the heads of goddesses, and the spandrels include roundels depicting putti engaged in gardening activities. The first-floor windows are also round-headed and feature panelled aprons and key blocks adorned with carvings of buds, flowers, and fruits. The building has rusticated pilaster strips at the corners, a cornice, and a piended and platformed slated roof.
At the rear of the bank, there is a large two-storey seed warehouse facing Abbey Row. This warehouse has three bays and is three storeys tall, with modern openings added at the upper left and lower right. It is constructed of rubble with droved dressings and has a piended and platformed slated roof.
Local climate
Barclays Bank, 21-23 Woodmarket, 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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