Boston Church And Offices, High Street, Jedburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 1993. Hall, former church.

Boston Church And Offices, High Street, Jedburgh

WRENN ID
moated-doorway-moss
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 March 1993
Type
Hall, former church
OS grid reference
NT 651 207
Coordinates
55.47923, -2.5528
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Boston Church and Offices, located on High Street in Jedburgh, was originally built in 1757 and rebuilt in 1818, with an addition to the north around 1900 and further alterations made later. The building features a two-storey, five-bay hall church set back from the High Street, accompanied by a smaller two-storey, three-bay church officer's house to the north. It has round-arched windows and cornices.

The main hall's west elevation facing High Street is constructed of narrow courses of stugged cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings that are painted. It includes round-headed windows with cills and a base course. The central and outer bays feature three pilastered doorcases, each with a two-leaf door and four-pane rectangular fanlights, although the central fanlight is filled in. Above these doors are windows, with intermediate bays showcasing tall windows that span the floor. A cornice runs along the top, and there is a panel with a plaque above the central door stating "FIRST ERECTED 1757 REBUILT 1818." The return and rear elevations are made of rubble with various later additions at ground level, featuring similar windows, two small upper windows on the side, and four large central windows on the rear. The windows have timber lying-pane and Y-tracery glazing. The roof is piended and covered with grey slates, and there are no visible chimney stacks.

The offices, located to the west on High Street, consist of a single-storey stugged cream ashlar three-bay block that was later raised to two-storeys. There is a door in a round-headed opening to the right, with an additional closet window to the left. The later added storey is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, featuring square windows, one of which is bipartite. The rear elevation has been significantly altered, with rubble at ground level and rendered above. The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes, following a Georgian pattern, and the roof is flat.

The boundary walls, piers, and railings include the north half of the forecourt enclosed by a low stugged ashlar wall with saddleback coping. There are a pair of square piers topped with very flat pyramidal ashlar caps and cast iron railings.

Local climate

Boston Church And Offices, High Street, 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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