Orchard House, Bowmont Street, Kelso is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. House.

Orchard House, Bowmont Street, Kelso

WRENN ID
crooked-basalt-ridge
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
House
OS grid reference
NT 722 344
Coordinates
55.60318, -2.44149
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Orchard House is a classical villa built around 1825, featuring two storeys and a basement. The building has three bays, with the centre bay slightly projecting and adorned with a garlanded block pediment above. The main entrance is approached by steps over an area and has a panelled pilastered door-piece. The front is constructed of ashlar stone with rusticated angle quoins at the ground floor and panelled angle margins above the first-floor cill course. The ground floor windows are framed with panelled pilastered surrounds, while the first-floor windows have plain architraves. A cornice runs along the wall-head, with a blocking course and rendered stacks at the flanks, topped by a piended slated roof.

To the east of Orchard House is Orchard Cottage, a single-storey, three-bay wing attached to the main house, also featuring a slated roof that is piended to the east.

Additionally, there is a dovecot, likely built in the early 19th century, which has a square plan and gabled ends to the north and south, topped with a low-pitched roof. The south wall includes a door with a triangular-headed inset above that contains three flight holes.

Local climate

Orchard House, 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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