Braidwood, Buccleuch Street, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. House. 4 related planning applications.

Braidwood, Buccleuch Street, Melrose

WRENN ID
first-joist-plum
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
Braidwood, Buccleuch Street, Melrose, TD6 9LD
OS grid reference
NT 547 341
Coordinates
55.59857, -2.72006
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Braidwood, located on Buccleuch Street in Melrose, dates from around the 1830s. This two-storey building with an attic features three bays and is harled, with ashlar cills and a corniced architrave above the central door. The roof is slated and has straight skews, with rectangular end-stacks that have cavetto cornices. At the attic level, there are two partly recessed segmental-headed dormers, and the original windows are 12-pane double-sash glazing.

Local climate

Braidwood, Buccleuch Street, 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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