Old Manse, Venchen Road, Town Yetholm is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 November 1993. House. 2 related planning applications.

Old Manse, Venchen Road, Town Yetholm

WRENN ID
tired-facade-coral
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 November 1993
Type
House
Address
Old Manse, Venchen Road, Town Yetholm, TD5 8RD
OS grid reference
NT 820 282
Coordinates
55.54779, -2.28588
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Old Manse, located on Venchen Road in Town Yetholm, is an early 19th century, two-storey house featuring five bays, with an adjoining two-bay house to the east. The exterior is rendered and has raised painted surrounds around the openings, with panelled doors and letterbox fanlights.

On the south elevation, the five-bay house is symmetrical with a central doorway. Above this doorway is a bipartite window on the first floor, while single windows are found at the ground level in the bays to the left and right. There are also single windows on both floors in the outer left and right bays. The adjoining two-bay house has a doorway in the left bay and single windows at both the ground and first floors in the right bay.

The east elevation features a single window on the first floor and a garage door leading to a lean-to structure to the north. The north elevation has an advanced two-storey wing. The building is fitted with 8-pane sash and case windows and is topped with grey slate roofs at varying pitches, along with rendered and coped gable heads and mutual stacks.

Local climate

Old Manse, Venchen Road, Town Yetholm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 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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