Kersheugh is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1993. Farmhouse.
Kersheugh
- WRENN ID
- eternal-ember-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1993
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 658 169
- Coordinates
- 55.44558, -2.54192
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kersheugh is a neo-Georgian farmhouse designed by James Pearson Alison in 1911. It is a two-storey building with an attic and has a rectangular plan with three bays. The exterior features irregular stugged squared and snecked cream sandstone masonry, accented by long and short pink ashlar dressings and a base course. The ground floor windows are slightly taller, and the eaves are overhanging.
On the south (entrance) front, there are two bays. The entrance consists of a panelled door with a diamond pattern fanlight, which is deep-set to the right bay. This door is framed by an architraved doorcase with a cornice. Above the door, there are windows, along with another window in the left bay.
The west (garden) front is symmetrical with three bays and an attic. The center bay is canted and features a moulded cill course. Each face has a single window, with the flanking windows being narrower. The wallhead breaks the eaves, adorned with moulded coping that forms a balcony for a tripartite box dormer. The flanking bays have windows on each floor.
The north elevation consists of three irregular bays, with windows in each bay on the ground floor and one in the center on the first floor. The outer left bay has a projecting piend-roofed single-storey service porch that includes a square shuttered coal-shute opening.
The east elevation also has three irregular bays. It features a large square stair window off-center, decorated with glazing bars typical of Alison. Below this window, there are three windows to the left on the ground floor, with single windows flanking on the first floor. To the right on the ground floor, there is a broad projecting single-storey piend-roofed jamb with three windows, and a single-storey rear porch with a door opening to the left. The windows throughout are 12-pane timber sash and case, with 8-pane windows on the sides of the canted bay and some secondary windows. The roof is piended and covered with grey slates, and there are corniced masonry stacks. The interior was not seen in 1992.
Local climate
Kersheugh 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 60% 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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