Eastgate Hall Community Centre, Eastgate, Peebles is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Theatre, arts centre. 4 related planning applications.
Eastgate Hall Community Centre, Eastgate, Peebles
- WRENN ID
- little-sentry-brook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1995
- Type
- Theatre, arts centre
- Address
- Eastgate Hall Community Centre, Eastgate, Peebles, EH45 8AD
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 405
- Coordinates
- 55.65246, -3.18758
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Eastgate Hall Community Centre is an early Gothic church built between 1871 and 1872. It features an aisleless design with a corner tower and spire. The building is constructed from squared and snecked whinstone rubble, accented with cream sandstone rock-faced dressings. Notable architectural details include a base course, chamfered reveals, hoodmoulded openings with foliate and head stops, pointed-arch lancet windows, and shoulder-arched doorways with pointed-arched hoods and ashlar tympana.
The tower is two stages high, with offset gabletted corner buttresses. The first stage has a doorway on the south side, a small bipartite window above it, and a tripartite window on the east return. The second stage features tall louvred bipartite windows. The tall broach spire is made of rock-faced ashlar and includes gablet ashlar lucarnes and pyramidal ashlar corner finals at its base.
The nave consists of six bays, each with bipartite lancets. The south front has paired gabled doorways at the center, featuring a carved panel with a tree of life in the tympanum and boarded doors with decorative iron hinges. Flanking the doorways are colonnette-mullioned tripartite windows, with a tall stapped tripartite window above that has plate tracery and ashlar mullions. A triangulated cusped oculus is situated at the gablehead. To the right is the tower, and to the left is a matching truncated tower with similar features, including a vesica-shaped oculus and a pyramidal roof on the second stage. The rear (north) elevation is gabled and includes a stepped tripartite window and an oculus at the gablehead.
The windows are fitted with small diamond-shaped leaded panes, and the roof is covered with purple slates.
Local climate
Eastgate Hall Community Centre, Eastgate, 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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