Gordon Arms Hotel is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 2003. Inn, hotel. 3 related planning applications.
Gordon Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- scarred-glass-marsh
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2003
- Type
- Inn, hotel
- Address
- Gordon Arms Hotel, TD7 5LE
- OS grid reference
- NT 307 249
- Coordinates
- 55.51299, -3.09748
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gordon Arms Hotel is a coaching inn, now functioning as a hotel, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. The building has been altered at both the front and rear and features two storeys with five bays, arranged in a 2-3 grouping, along with a single-storey, six-bay wing. The exterior is harled with stone margins and quoin strips, and there are some stop-chamfered arrises.
On the south elevation, there is a gabled porch with a boarded timber door and narrow lights on each side in the bay to the right of the centre at ground level. Flanking windows are present, with the left window being a later bipartite design, and two additional windows to the outer left. The first floor has three regularly spaced windows that break the eaves into gablet dormerheads, a small window near the eaves between bays three and five, and a plaque located between bays two and three. There are slightly advanced piend-roofed single-storey bays to the outer left, featuring a boarded timber door to the left, windows in the flanking bays, and a further door with an adjacent window to the left at the outer right, along with a lower bay to the outer left that has a broad sliding timber door.
The east elevation has gabled bays to the outer left with two ground-level windows and a single window to the right on the first floor, along with a signboard to the left. Slightly set-back later bays to the right contain three ground-level windows and two windows that break the eaves into dormerheads on the first floor.
The west elevation features a blank piended bay with a door in the link wall at the outer left. The north elevation displays a variety of elements, including a blank gabled bay to the left and a single-storey gable to the right.
The building has 4- and 6-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with dark grey slates and features fishscale bands on the porch. Coped harled stacks with cans are present, along with plain bargeboarding and cast-iron downpipes that have decorative rainwater hoppers.
The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls that are complemented by decorative ironwork gates.
Local climate
Gordon Arms Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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