Douglas Cottage, High Street, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Douglas Cottage, High Street, Melrose

WRENN ID
stark-rotunda-brook
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 February 1981
Type
Cottage
Address
Douglas Cottage, High Street, Melrose, TD6 9SA
OS grid reference
NT 543 342
Coordinates
55.59942, -2.7264
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Douglas Cottage is an earlier 19th-century building that is single-storey with an attic and features three bays. The central bay is advanced and contains a door with deep cavetto reveals and a fanlight, along with a block cornice and a blocking course. There are later piended canted bay windows on both the left and right sides. The cottage is constructed from coursed squared rubble with droved ashlar dressings. It has straight skews and rectangular coped end-stacks. Additionally, there is a round-headed attic window on the west flank.

Local climate

Douglas Cottage, High 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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