Former William Beck's Stocking Shop, Rear Of 21 High Street is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 2008. Former stocking shop, housing.
Former William Beck's Stocking Shop, Rear Of 21 High Street
- WRENN ID
- over-pediment-wax
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 November 2008
- Type
- Former stocking shop, housing
- Address
- Former William Beck's Stocking Shop, Rear Of 21 High Street, TD9 9BZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 502 145
- Coordinates
- 55.42236, -2.78793
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former William Beck's Stocking Shop, located at the rear of 21 High Street, dates from around 1800. This two-storey, L-plan building features a gabled design and was originally used for stocking manufacturing, but has since been converted into housing. It is situated along a cobbled courtyard and has small, square windows on the first floor that were once used for the workshops. The structure is built from random whinstone rubble, with mostly replacement red and yellow sandstone ashlar dressings.
The east elevation facing the courtyard has an L-plan forestair at the re-entrant angle, irregular window placement on the ground floor, workshop windows on the first floor, and a remnant of the chimney base at the apex of the left gable. The west elevation at the rear includes a timber-boarded door to the pend on the left side of the ground floor, two windows to the right, and six workshop windows on the first floor. The south elevation has one window on each floor and a blank gable end on the left.
The building features replacement multi-pane timber windows, with sash and case windows in the offices and casement windows in the former workshops. It has a grey slate roof with metal ridges.
Local climate
Former William Beck's Stocking Shop, Rear Of 21 High Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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