Bon Accord Hotel, 3 Market Square, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Commercial building, hotel.
Bon Accord Hotel, 3 Market Square, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- moated-spire-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1971
- Type
- Commercial building, hotel
- OS grid reference
- NT 547 340
- Coordinates
- 55.59775, -2.71976
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bon Accord Hotel, located at 3 Market Square in Melrose, consists of two parts built in different periods. The west part dates from the earlier 19th century and is two stories high with two bays. It features a rendered exterior that is lined to resemble ashlar, with painted ashlar margins and quoins. This section has a segmental-bowed projection with a tripartite window on each floor, alongside a pilastered doorcase with tripartite windows above it to the right. It also includes an eaves-band, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course, with straight skews and a rectangular end-stack on the west side, topped by a slated roof.
The east part, built in the later 19th century, is also two stories tall but has three bays. It shares a similar rendered and lined ashlar appearance with painted ashlar margins. This section features a central door, with a modern shop to the right on the ground floor. The openings have chamfered margins, and the straight skews are topped with a slated roof, while the rectangular end-stacks have been rebuilt in brick. The two parts were formerly separate properties.
Local climate
Bon Accord Hotel, 3 Market Square, 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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