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

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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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