37 High Street, Peebles is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Bank. 5 related planning applications.

37 High Street, Peebles

WRENN ID
other-basalt-sorrel
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
Bank
Address
37 High Street, Peebles, EH45 8AN
OS grid reference
NT 251 404
Coordinates
55.65138, -3.19047
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

37 High Street in Peebles is a former bank building, constructed in 1887, featuring two storeys and an attic in an Italianate style. It is situated on a corner site and is made of coursed stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The exterior includes a base course, moulded architraves, a frieze and cornice at the ground level, and a deep band course above that incorporates aprons for the first-floor windows. The eaves feature a frieze and cornice, and the building has long and short quoins.

On the north elevation, there is a broad single bay. The ground floor has an arched doorway leading to the bank on the left, which is flanked by pilasters and topped with a keystone. This doorway has a two-leaf panelled door, with two windows to the right. The first floor features a tripartite window divided by Doric columns and flanked by pilasters, topped with a central segmental pediment. The dormer above is flanked by pedestals with ball finials.

The west elevation consists of three bays, with four irregularly spaced windows and a round-headed doorway leading to the upper floors on the ground level. The first floor has three broadly spaced windows, and there is a central dormer with a segmental pediment, flanked by shouldered wallhead stacks. There is also a further lower, plain two-storey bay to the south.

The building has timber sash and case plate glass windows, a piended roof with a gable to the rear, grey-green slates, corniced ashlar stacks, and moulded cast-iron eaves guttering and downpipes. The interior was not seen in 1994.

Local climate

37 High 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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