Tollhouse, Bridge Street, Kelso is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Cottage.
Tollhouse, Bridge Street, Kelso
- WRENN ID
- salt-landing-twilight
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 728 336
- Coordinates
- 55.59588, -2.43282
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The tollhouse on Bridge Street in Kelso was designed by John Rennie around 1803. It is a single-storey building that features a carriageway with a basement below. The front has three bays, with a central door flanked by engaged Tuscan columns. Above the columns, the entablature and cornice project forward. The corners of the building are accentuated by clasping Tuscan pilasters. The roof is piended and covered with slate. The front is made of polished ashlar, while the flanks and rear are constructed from coursed squared rubble.
Local climate
Tollhouse, 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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