Ormiston Institute, 10 Market Square, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

Ormiston Institute, 10 Market Square, Melrose

WRENN ID
hollow-moat-violet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 February 1981
Type
Commercial
Address
Ormiston Institute, 10 Market Square, Melrose, TD6 9PN
OS grid reference
NT 547 339
Coordinates
55.59715, -2.72003
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ormiston Institute, located at 10 Market Square in Melrose, is a building from the later 19th century. It is two storeys high and features five bays, constructed from red sandstone with stugged ashlar and polished dressings. The centre doorpiece is consoled, and there is a door at the extreme right-hand bay. The building has chamfered angles at the openings, a moulded eaves-course, and a slated roof topped with a rectangular corniced end-stack. Notably, there is a large cast-iron clock on an ornamental bracket at the first floor, which was erected in 1892 in memory of John Meikle, a physician and surgeon.

Local climate

Ormiston Institute, 10 Market Square, 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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