Buccleuch House, Buccleuch Street, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. School.

Buccleuch House, Buccleuch Street, Melrose

WRENN ID
night-truss-bone
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 February 1981
Type
School
OS grid reference
NT 546 341
Coordinates
55.59866, -2.72091
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Buccleuch House, located on Buccleuch Street in Melrose, dates from around 1830. This two-storey building features a five-bay symmetrical front made of droved ashlar with polished dressings. The central door is topped with a fanlight and a hood supported by consoles, with a tripartite window above it on the first floor. The house has a moulded cornice and a blocking course, along with a piended slated roof and tall rectangular end stacks that have cavetto cornices. There is a small central dormer with a platform roof in the attic.

To the west, there is a recessed, single-bay, two-storey addition that is harled and has a flat roof. On the east side, there is another recessed two-storey addition with three bays, constructed from stugged ashlar with droved dressings and a block cornice, also featuring a flat roof.

Local climate

Buccleuch House, Buccleuch Street, 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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