Allan Ramsay Hotel, Main Street, Carlops is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.

Allan Ramsay Hotel, Main Street, Carlops

WRENN ID
tangled-pilaster-nightshade
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1971
Type
Hotel
Address
Allan Ramsay Hotel, Main Street, Carlops, EH26 9NF
OS grid reference
NT 160 560
Coordinates
55.79049, -3.34003
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Allan Ramsay Hotel, dated 1792, is a two-storey, nine-bay gabled hotel located prominently in the center of Carlops village. The building features a five-bay section on the left, which includes a dated doorway with a pediment and scrolled brackets at the center. To the right, there is a further four-bay addition that has a stone forestair leading up to a door on the first floor. The exterior is constructed of stugged pale sandstone ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, featuring four-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes ridge and end stacks with clay cans. The hotel also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

Allan Ramsay Hotel, Main Street, Carlops sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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