The Cloisters, Cloisters Road, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Abbey.

The Cloisters, Cloisters Road, Melrose

WRENN ID
pitched-corbel-peregrine
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
Abbey
OS grid reference
NT 549 342
Coordinates
55.59934, -2.71707
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cloisters, located on Cloisters Road in Melrose, was built in 1815 by John Smith of Darnick, with later additions from the 19th century. This two-storey building features three bays and a central door that is framed by a corniced architrave and a fanlight. To the left, there is a later canted bay window that extends through both the ground and first floors. The structure is constructed from coursed squared rubble, accented with droved and polished dressings. It has rectangular cavetto corniced stacks at the sides and a slated piended roof.

Local climate

The Cloisters, Cloisters Road, 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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