Veitch Memorial, High Street, Peebles is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Monument.
Veitch Memorial, High Street, Peebles
- WRENN ID
- late-hammer-hazel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1995
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 404
- Coordinates
- 55.65146, -3.19074
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Veitch Memorial, located on High Street in Peebles, was designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson in 1898. This pale pink granite monument honors the poet John Veitch. It features a square pedestal that displays a cast bronze portrait profile of Veitch on one side. The pedestal supports a bulbous column, which has acanthus leaves at its base and a Roman Doric capital. The column is adorned with copper garlands and cherubs, and it is topped with a bronze lion rampant that holds a shield displaying the Town crest. The memorial also has a marble base with rounded angles and grey granite panels.
Local climate
Veitch Memorial, High Street, 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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