Cross Keys Hotel, The Square, Kelso is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Cross Keys Hotel, The Square, Kelso
- WRENN ID
- quartered-porch-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1971
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Cross Keys Hotel, The Square, Kelso, TD5 7HL
- OS grid reference
- NT 727 339
- Coordinates
- 55.59883, -2.4343
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Cross Keys Hotel, located in The Square, Kelso, dates back to around 1760 and was given an Italianate front in 1879. This four-storey building features seven bays, with a central coach entry that has a basket arch and a modern door to the right. The ground floor windows lack architraves, but the alterations from 1879 included the addition of corniced architraves at the first floor and lugged architraves at the second floor. The rusticated angle quoins, dating from 1760, were replicated at the third floor added in 1879. At the top, there is a dentil cornice at the wall head with a balustraded parapet above, featuring large ball and spike finials at the interval and terminal piers. Similar finials and a large gilt cross-keys sign adorn the central single bay attic pavilion, which provides access to the roof promenade.
Local climate
Cross Keys Hotel, The Square, Kelso receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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