Library And Flat, 18-20 Market Square, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Library.

Library And Flat, 18-20 Market Square, Melrose

WRENN ID
north-cupola-quill
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 February 1981
Type
Library
Address
Library And Flat, 18-20 Market Square, Melrose, TD6 9PN
OS grid reference
NT 547 339
Coordinates
55.59713, -2.71962
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building at 18-20 Market Square in Melrose is a mid-19th century library and flat. It is two stories tall with an attic and features three bays. The structure is made of coursed squared rubble with droved ashlar dressings. On the right side, there is a three-bay shop at ground level that has had its windows enlarged. The building has a moulded cornice and a blocking course at the top of the wall. It has straight skews, a rectangular end stack, and two piended dormers in the attic, all topped with a slated roof.

Local climate

Library And Flat, 18-20 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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