Workshop & House, Union Street, Galashiels is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 August 1993. Workshop and house.
Workshop & House, Union Street, Galashiels
- WRENN ID
- far-glass-elder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1993
- Type
- Workshop and house
- OS grid reference
- NT 488 364
- Coordinates
- 55.61866, -2.81344
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located on Union Street in Galashiels, dates from the mid 19th to early 20th century and originally served as an engineering workshop and house, though it is now used as office space. The structure is arranged around a courtyard and is constructed of whinstone, with the front of the house squared, and features sandstone ashlar dressings.
The workshop is two stories tall and has seven bays. Its courtyard elevation includes three wide semicircular arches on the ground floor, with large multi-pane windows above. The roof is pitched and covered with purple slate.
The house is also two stories and has three bays, topped with a piended slate roof. It features bipartite windows on both the upper and lower left sides, and there is a single-storey extension on the outer left. Wallhead stacks are present.
The house predominantly has timber sash and case windows, while the former workshop features timber multi-pane top-hoppers.
The interior has been modernised throughout. Surrounding the property are high rubble boundary walls topped with semicircular ashlar coping, along with a 20th-century metal gate.
Local climate
Workshop & House, Union Street, Galashiels 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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