Watch House, Old Churchyard, High Street, Eyemouth is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Churchyard, watch-house.
Watch House, Old Churchyard, High Street, Eyemouth
- WRENN ID
- turning-timber-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Churchyard, watch-house
- OS grid reference
- NT 943 644
- Coordinates
- 55.87302, -2.09198
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Watch House, located in the Old Churchyard on High Street in Eyemouth, was built in 1849. This small building features a slated roof and is constructed almost entirely from fragments of tombstones, many of which are elaborately carved. The churchyard has recently been cleared of tombstones, which have been re-erected against the walls. In the center of the churchyard, there is a memorial dedicated to 189 fishermen who were lost at sea in October 1881.
Local climate
Watch House, Old Churchyard, High Street, Eyemouth receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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