Ivy Bank And Ivy Bank Curios, Grantshouse is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 2000. Cottage, shop. 3 related planning applications.
Ivy Bank And Ivy Bank Curios, Grantshouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-quoin-azure
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 2000
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- Ivy Bank And Ivy Bank Curios, Grantshouse, TD11 3RW
- OS grid reference
- NT 808 655
- Coordinates
- 55.88276, -2.30755
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ivy Bank and Ivy Bank Curios is a mid-19th century building that has undergone later additions and alterations. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, featuring a six-bay range arranged in groups of three, with a single-storey addition on the left and a single-storey garage, possibly a former gig house, on the right. The exterior is finished in whitewashed harl with painted quoin strips and margins.
On the south elevation, the left side houses a three-bay cottage known as 'Ivy Bank'. It has a modern boarded timber door in the center at ground level, a fanlight above, and a bracketed canopy. There are single windows flanking the door at ground level, and gabled dormerheads above the windows that break the eaves, with a lintel on the right dated '1846'. The single-storey addition on the outer left features a boarded timber door and a small window to the right. To the right is a three-bay shop called 'Ivy Bank Curios', which has steps leading up to a part-glazed boarded timber door in the center, a fanlight above, and large 19th-century plate glass shop windows flanking the door. There is also a gabled dormerhead above the central window. The garage/gig house on the outer right has a modern garage door.
The north elevation was not visible in 1999. The building features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with some modern dormer windows and plate glass shop windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with stone-coped skews, while the garage/gig house has a pantiled roof. There is a brick-built ridge stack at the center and an apex stack to the west, along with a corniced sandstone apex stack to the east and various circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1999.
Local climate
Ivy Bank And Ivy Bank Curios, Grantshouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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