Dryburgh Abbey House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Dryburgh Abbey House
- WRENN ID
- rough-basalt-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dryburgh Abbey House, TD6 0RQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 592 315
- Coordinates
- 55.57624, -2.64764
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dryburgh Abbey House has an 18th century core, with additions made by John Smith in 1839 and a rebuilding after a fire by Henry Francis Kerr between 1892 and 1894. The house is two stories high, with a basement and attic, and features a five-bay symmetrical principal elevation facing north, which includes a central entrance. At the rear, there is a later three-bay gabled section with bowed and canted bays.
Wide steps lead up to the central entrance, which is flanked by Ionic columns. The front and the bowed and canted bays have wallhead balustrading, while the sides feature a crenellated wallhead, corner bartizans, and tripartite windows on the west bay. The building is constructed of coursed ashlar stone.
The windows are predominantly sash and case, with 12-pane glazing. The roof has corniced rectangular ridge and gable stacks topped with plain cans.
Local climate
Dryburgh Abbey House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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