Newton House Including Boundary Wall, Tweedside Road, Newton St Boswells is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 July 2010. House.
Newton House Including Boundary Wall, Tweedside Road, Newton St Boswells
- WRENN ID
- lunar-vault-poplar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 July 2010
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 578 316
- Coordinates
- 55.57637, -2.6694
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Newton House, located on Tweedside Road in Newton St Boswells, is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay terraced house. It features a corniced doorway and a moulded eaves cornice. The building is constructed of red sandstone rubble with pink dressings and has decorative cast-iron balconies. There are also a pair of canted dormers on the roof.
On the rear elevation, there is a large stair window with coloured glass margin-paned lights, along with a later single-storey piended addition made of brick. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and has stone skews on the east side. The house also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the principal drawing room features a basket-arched recess on the rear elevation and a classical fireplace with a garlanded frieze. There is a curving stair with a timber handrail.
The boundary wall surrounding the property is made of rubble with ashlar coping and includes brick piers topped with pyramidal caps, as well as a cast-iron gate.
Local climate
Newton House Including Boundary Wall, Tweedside Road, Newton St Boswells 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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