Summerhouse, Ravenswood is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 July 2010. Summerhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Summerhouse, Ravenswood
- WRENN ID
- sharp-baluster-nightshade
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 July 2010
- Type
- Summerhouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 589 342
- Coordinates
- 55.60045, -2.65264
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Summerhouse at Ravenswood dates from around 1809, with alterations made around 1885 and 1892. This single-storey, three-bay structure features a single room and has a pedimented entrance bay on the west elevation. The building is canted at the rear and includes a round-arched window. It is situated on a promontory overlooking the River Tweed, north of Old Melrose House. The exterior is constructed of freestone rubble with pale ashlar dressings, and includes a cill course, eaves course, and a moulded cornice. The quoins are margined, and there is a projecting lintel above the doorway topped with a ball-finial and a moulded pediment. The north and south elevations have tall, coped wallhead stacks.
Inside, the summerhouse features a fine high Victorian decorative scheme, although the timber coved ceiling has fallen in as of 2009. There is a roll-moulded canopied chimneypiece adorned with scrolled cast-iron ornament, along with a tiled floor and glazed tile walls. The windows are fitted with timber panelled shutters and surrounds.
Local climate
Summerhouse, Ravenswood 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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