Railings And Gate Piers, Boundary Walls, Paxton House is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Boundary wall, railings, gatepiers.
Railings And Gate Piers, Boundary Walls, Paxton House
- WRENN ID
- lone-sandstone-rush
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Boundary wall, railings, gatepiers
- OS grid reference
- NT 931 525
- Coordinates
- 55.76599, -2.11127
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The railings and gate piers, along with the boundary walls of Paxton House, are likely from the 19th century. They consist of tall pink rubble sandstone walls that enclose the Paxton House estate, sharing a boundary with Tweedhill House in part. The walls feature predominantly squared sandstone coping, with some sections made of rubble. At the northwest corner, there are hooped iron railings that follow a curved design.
Various sandstone gatepiers are present, including square-plan piers with pyramidal caps to the north, although the gate is missing. There are also platformed, pyramidal-capped, stop-chamfered square-plan piers flanking the entrance to The Dower House, which also lacks a gate. Nearby, additional square-plan piers with pyramidal caps support a two-leaf iron gate.
Swept walls flank an opening to the northeast, and there are further openings in the walls. The site is enclosed to the River Tweed, featuring a four-centred arched opening with a keystone that spans a sluice to the south.
Local climate
Railings And Gate Piers, Boundary Walls, Paxton House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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