Town Hall, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Town house.

Town Hall, Melrose

WRENN ID
muffled-keystone-violet
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
Town house
OS grid reference
NT 547 340
Coordinates
55.59778, -2.71917
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Town Hall in Melrose was originally constructed by J and T Smith of Darnick in 1822 and later reconstructed in the 19th century. It is a two-storey building with four bays, featuring doors at the outer bays and windows on the first floor rather than at ground level. Above the memorial tablet, there is a 16th-century armorial panel from the Abbey positioned between the centre windows on the first floor. The building has a belfry located in the north gable, constructed from coursed squared rubble with a slated roof and straight skews.

Local climate

Town Hall, 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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