4 Abbotsford Road is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006.
4 Abbotsford Road
- WRENN ID
- white-spindle-sedge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- OS grid reference
- NT 495 356
- Coordinates
- 55.6116, -2.80278
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Abbotsford Road is a former school building dating from 1859, designed in a plain gothic style. It is a single-storey, 4-bay structure in an L-plan layout, with an attached 2-storey, 2-bay schoolhouse to the east, which has been used as offices since 2006. At the rear, there are lower ancillary ranges that form a U-plan courtyard.
The exterior features shouldered arched windows with plain circular recessed stone plaques above them. The roof is steep-pitched with multiple gables and overhanging boarded timber eaves. The building is constructed of coursed rubble whinstone, with stugged and smoothed blonde sandstone quoins and chamfered surrounds. The windows include bronze fixed multi-pane casements with ventilators and 8-pane timber sash and case windows in the schoolhouse. The doors are 20th-century glazed timber. The roofs are pitched with slate, and there are corniced shouldered ashlar stacks with circular clay cans, along with a mixture of cast-iron and plastic rainwater goods.
Inside, the main school area has been remodeled to create office spaces. However, the interior of the schoolhouse retains its original layout and features, including shutters, panelled doors, and a simple turned stair.
The boundary wall and railings consist of whinstone rubble with rounded copes surrounding the former playground to the south, east, and west. There are also cast-iron railings with decorative corner posts enclosing the yard that faces the street.
Local climate
4 Abbotsford Road receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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