12 High Cross Avenue, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
12 High Cross Avenue, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- guardian-portal-yarrow
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- 12 High Cross Avenue, Melrose, TD6 9SQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 541 342
- Coordinates
- 55.59981, -2.72903
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 High Cross Avenue is a mid-19th century, symmetrical two-storey, three-bay villa. The central bay features a gabled roof and a Tuscan columned porch at the ground level, which supports a canted bay window. The first floor has a tripartite window. There are square projecting bays on both the left and right sides, each with tripartite windows on the ground and first floors, and they are corniced with a blocking course above. The villa is constructed from coursed square rubble with freestone dressings and has a piended slated roof with tall rectangular coped stacks.
Local climate
12 High Cross Avenue, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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