Turnbull And Scott (Engineers) Ltd, 16-20 Commercial Road is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 2007. Administration block. 10 related planning applications.

Turnbull And Scott (Engineers) Ltd, 16-20 Commercial Road

WRENN ID
lesser-garret-saffron
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 2007
Type
Administration block
Address
Turnbull And Scott (Engineers) Ltd, 16-20 Commercial Road, TD9 7AQ
OS grid reference
NT 501 148
Coordinates
55.42456, -2.78897
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Turnbull And Scott (Engineers) Ltd, located at 16-20 Commercial Road, is an early 20th-century, two-storey, three-bay Tudor-style administration block designed in a roughly T-plan. The building features shouldered gables, a corniced parapet, and mullioned windows. It is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, and includes a moulded eaves course, hoodmoulds over the ground floor windows, and pronounced masonry cills. The gableheads are adorned with blind arrow slits. At the rear, there are two large sheds that are illuminated by pairs of large keystoned segmental-headed windows.

The principal (eastern) elevation has a timber panelled door with a plain fanlight and a gablet pediment above it, located in the central bay. To the left is a horizontal tripartite window. The wings on either side are roughly symmetrical and recessed, each featuring tripartite windows at the centre and shouldered wall-head gables. The left bay of the right wing has a later large tripartite window. The windows are fitted with small-pane glazing in metal-framed casement and fixed-light styles. The roof is covered with grey slate and red ridge tiles, and there are coped ridge stacks.

The rear (western) side has a pair of linked sheds with shouldered gable ends. A large sliding corrugated iron door is located on the left side of the northern elevation, and there is a small single-storey addition to the east with a corrugated iron roof. The western elevations are clad in asbestos and corrugated iron, with continuous ridge glazing. There are non-traditional additions on the southern side.

Inside the administration block, repairs were made following a flood in 2005, but it still retains its original stair and tiled floor in the vestibule. The sheds feature a cast-iron roof structure, with the eastern shed retaining an original manually operated hoist set into the side walls.

Local climate

Turnbull And Scott (Engineers) Ltd, 16-20 Commercial Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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