Ship Inn, East Port, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

Ship Inn, East Port, Melrose

WRENN ID
wild-thatch-moon
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
Inn
Address
Ship Inn, East Port, Melrose, TD6 9RA
OS grid reference
NT 548 339
Coordinates
55.59708, -2.71882
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ship Inn, located at East Port in Melrose, is a pair of houses from the later 18th century that were altered in the mid-19th century to function as an inn. The building is rendered and stands two stories high with four bays. On the ground floor, there is a central round-arched door that has been inserted, along with a second door in the outer bay to the left. This door and the windows on both the ground and first floors feature chamfered margins. The east and west flank walls have skew putts, and there are large rectangular chimneys at the wall-head, indicating that the original wall-head gables were removed in the mid-19th century. These were replaced by a piended, slated roof that includes a pair of canted piended dormers.

Local climate

Ship Inn, East Port, 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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