Post Office, Main Street, Allanton is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Cottage.

Post Office, Main Street, Allanton

WRENN ID
late-gutter-primrose
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 865 543
Coordinates
55.78262, -2.2162
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a Post Office located on Main Street in Allanton, dating from around 1800 with later additions and alterations. It consists of a two-storey, irregular four-bay pair of cottages, with the Post Office on the left and Rose Cottage on the right, forming part of a larger terrace. The exterior is constructed from harl-pointed whinstone rubble, featuring polished ashlar raised margins at the ground level with droved ashlar tails, and polished margins at the first floor with stugged ashlar tails. There are some rendered repairs present.

On the east elevation facing the street, there are windows at both the ground and first floors in the outer left, penultimate right, and outer right bays. A part-glazed door is located between the centre bays, with another door in the bay to the left of centre, flanked by an additional window to the left and a first-floor window above.

The west elevation has not been seen since 1996. The left two-bay group features plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the right three-bay group has modern timber tilt and turn windows with two panes. The roof is slate, with ashlar coped skews. There is a brick gablehead stack to the north and a truncated brick gablehead stack to the south.

The interiors have not been seen since 1996.

Local climate

Post Office, Main Street, Allanton receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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