St John's Episcopal School, Sharplaw Road, Jedburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 February 1979. School.

St John's Episcopal School, Sharplaw Road, Jedburgh

WRENN ID
graven-step-weasel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 February 1979
Type
School
OS grid reference
NT 650 210
Coordinates
55.48165, -2.55413
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St John's Episcopal School, built in 1844, is a two-storey, T-shaped building designed by William Butterfield, with additions made in 1857, likely also by Butterfield, and again in 1934. The school is constructed of cream sandstone rubble with long and short ashlar dressings. The windows are stone mullioned, featuring either cusped pointed-arch heads or rubble relieving arches, with chamfered arrises. The building has steeply pitched roofs.

The south elevation is gabled, featuring a large four-light rectangular window on the first floor, and a modern roughcast chimney stack on the far right. The east elevation is five bays wide. The original three bays on the left show a projecting, shouldered stack, corbelled out at the first floor, supported by a buttress and flanked by single-light, cusped, pointed-arch windows. A tripartite pointed-arch window is at ground level to the left, and a canted window replaces two smaller windows to the right. First-floor windows are tripartite, pointed-arch, with transoms. The fourth and fifth bays are advanced and gabled; the fourth bay is narrow with a relocated pointed-arch door at ground level and a later rectangular window above, likely originally a stair tower. The broad fifth bay on the right incorporates large rectangular windows on both ground and first floors, a five-light window and a three-light window respectively, and a trefoil window in the gablehead.

The north elevation has three bays with a projecting stack positioned centrally over an altered ground-floor window, truncated at the eaves. A bipartite, pointed-arch window is at ground level to the right, and a single-storey, flat-roofed, roughcast addition wraps around the angle. The outer first-floor bays feature tripartite pointed-arch windows with transoms.

The west elevation is five bays wide with rectangular windows at ground level and pointed-arch windows with transoms above. The original four bays are positioned to the right, with a strip-hinged, boarded door in a roll-moulded pointed-arch frame providing access to the masters' flat. A bipartite window is to the right of the door, and a single window to the left. Only two bays are present above the ground floor. The left bay features bipartite windows, while the far-left bay is advanced and gabled, with a gabled bellcote at its apex. A large tripartite window with a trifoil in the gablehead is on the first floor. A single-storey, roughcast addition is at ground level, matching the stack on the far right. A two-storey, piend-roofed, roughcast addition containing a stair projects, obscuring the end bay, and returns to the south, with a ground-floor door and a window above.

The windows are a mix of timber casements, metal casements, and timber sash and case multipane windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with ashlar skewbacks and some skewputts, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior features open, trussed timber roofs in both halls, but few original fittings remain. The original stair has been removed. A carved plaque commemorates the 1857 addition, located at the top of the stair. Boarded timber gates and a boundary wall, shared with the church, are also present (listed separately).

Local climate

St John's Episcopal School, Sharplaw Road, Jedburgh receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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