Police Station, 1-3N Port Brae, Peebles is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Police station. 1 related planning application.

Police Station, 1-3N Port Brae, Peebles

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1995
Type
Police station
Address
Police Station, 1-3N Port Brae, Peebles, EH45 8AW
OS grid reference
NT 250 403
Coordinates
55.651, -3.19226
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Police Station at 1-3N Port Brae in Peebles was built in 1881 and is a two-storey, six-bay structure located on a sloping corner site. It is constructed from coursed stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. The building features ashlar mullions and transoms with chamfered arrises, a first-floor cill course, an eaves course, and crowstepped gables.

The central three bays are symmetrical, showcasing a tripartite window at the ground floor, which is topped by a pedimented aedicule with a date panel at the first floor. This section also includes a consoled wallhead stack. On either side of the central bay, there are roll-moulded round-headed doorways with keystones, each featuring two-leaf panelled doors and a plate glass fanlight, with the left one being coloured. Above these doorways are bipartite windows at the first floor. The outer right bay has a full-height piend-roofed canted window, which is bipartite at the front. The inner left bay contains a tripartite window at the ground floor and a bipartite window at the first floor, which has a hoodmould stepping over a panel and gable. The irregular bay on the far left includes a door and window to the basement, a plate glass shop window above, and a window at the first floor that breaks the eaves with a gabled dormerhead, which is part of the adjoining property at 75-77 High Street.

The building features timber three-pane sash and case windows, with the canted window having six panes, all running behind transoms. The roof is covered with grey slates, and it has crowstepped skews and beak skewputts, along with corniced ashlar stacks. The interior was not seen in 1994.

Local climate

Police Station, 1-3N Port Brae, 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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