Tweed Cottage, Waverley Road, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Tweed Cottage, Waverley Road, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- hushed-baluster-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tweed Cottage, Waverley Road, Melrose, TD6 9SL
- OS grid reference
- NT 539 344
- Coordinates
- 55.60136, -2.73241
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tweed Cottage, located on Waverley Road in Melrose, was likely built in 1869 and before 1873 for the Waverley Hydropathic Company Ltd. It originally served as the residence for the pumpman who managed the water supply from St Helen's Well. The cottage is constructed of mass concrete and features a fine render that mimics ashlar, although the ground floor has been pebble-dashed.
This two-storey cottage has an asymmetrical design and is said to have large tanks in the roof. There is a porch on the east side and a first-floor entrance on the south side. The first-floor windows and door are adorned with bold cast mouldings around the reveals, and the apron panels are also boldly moulded and cast. The windows primarily feature four-pane glazing. The porch is covered with fish scale slate, and the cottage has a slate roof with a large central chimney stack.
Local climate
Tweed Cottage, Waverley 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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