Kirklands, Ancrum is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 August 1977. Mansion.

Kirklands, Ancrum

WRENN ID
silent-lantern-ridge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 August 1977
Type
Mansion
OS grid reference
NT 620 250
Coordinates
55.51796, -2.60334
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kirklands is a large mansion built around 1830, designed by architect Edward Blore, in the Tudor style. The building has two storeys and a garret, constructed from stugged ashlar with a slated roof. It features tall chimneys grouped in clusters of three and four. The windows are mullioned and transomed, with hood-mouldings above them, and there are oriel windows as well. The entrance includes a gabled porch adorned with lead heads of hounds on either side of the door.

Local climate

Kirklands, Ancrum 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 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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