Fordel Villa, 10 High Cross Avenue, 8, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Fordel Villa, 10 High Cross Avenue, 8, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- plain-moulding-torch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fordel Villa, 10 High Cross Avenue, 8, Melrose, TD6 9SQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 542 342
- Coordinates
- 55.59989, -2.72828
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fordel Villa, located at 10 High Cross Avenue in Melrose, is a mid-19th century building with later 19th century additions that have since been subdivided. The villa has two storeys and features a south front where the original house is on the left. This part consists of a three-bay block with an advanced, gabled centre bay that includes a canted window spanning both the ground and first floors. The entrance, which was formerly accessed through a porch on the right-hand flank, is now reached via a screen that connects the original house to a later projecting wing on the right. This wing is also two storeys tall and has a square projecting bay with tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors. The building is constructed from coursed squared rubble and features stugged and polished freestone dressings. It has piended slated roofs and rectangular coped stacks.
Local climate
Fordel Villa, 10 High Cross Avenue, 8, Melrose 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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