Commercial Inn, 7 Bowmont Street, Kelso is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 July 1980. Commercial inn. 3 related planning applications.
Commercial Inn, 7 Bowmont Street, Kelso
- WRENN ID
- vast-column-wind
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1980
- Type
- Commercial inn
- Address
- Commercial Inn, 7 Bowmont Street, Kelso, TD5 7JH
- OS grid reference
- NT 727 340
- Coordinates
- 55.59909, -2.43392
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Commercial Inn, located at 7 Bowmont Street in Kelso, is a former pair of separate properties dating from the early 19th century. The building is two storeys high and features four bays, with the outer bays enlarged to bipartites at both the ground and first floors. The façade is rendered with ashlar margins and has a swept angle to Bowmont Street, with straight skews. The roof is slated.
To the west, there is an earlier 19th-century structure that is three storeys tall and has three bays. This section includes a modern garage opening on the left side of the ground floor. The ground floor is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, while the upper floors are constructed of coarser rubble with rendered margins and a cill-course at the first floor. This part also features straight skews and a slated roof.
Local climate
Commercial Inn, 7 Bowmont Street, Kelso receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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