Alexander Cottage, 21 March Street, Peebles is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. 6 related planning applications.

Alexander Cottage, 21 March Street, Peebles

WRENN ID
under-plaster-moon
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1995
Address
Alexander Cottage, 21 March Street, Peebles, EH45 8EP
OS grid reference
NT 250 407
Coordinates
55.65471, -3.19339
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Marion Cottage, located at 19 March Street in Peebles, was built in 1886. It is a single-storey and attic double cottage with three bays, featuring intricate carved ornamentation. The structure is constructed from whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings, and it displays long and short rock-faced quoins, stop-chamfered arrises, and panelled lintels.

The front elevation has a pair of doors at the center, with the right door being panelled and both doors topped with letterbox fanlights. The lintels above the doors are adorned with carved husk swags and rosettes, and there is a panelled date stone above that reads 1886. Above this, there is a bipartite box-dormer. To the right, there is a canted window with a cornice and blocking course, featuring carved foliate decoration on the lintels and a framed panel above inscribed "ALEXANDER COTTAGE." To the left, there is a bipartite window with a lintel carved with gadrooned scrolls and a framed panel above inscribed "MARION COTTAGE." The outer bays have piend-roofed canted timber dormers, while the east and west gables are blank. At the rear, there is a projecting gabled single-storey and attic bay for No. 21.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, featuring two-pane upper sashes on the left at ground level. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has ashlar coped skews and coped sandstone apex stacks.

Local climate

Alexander Cottage, 21 March 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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