73, 77 (Inclusive) Kirk Brae is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

73, 77 (Inclusive) Kirk Brae

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 November 2006
Type
Tenement
Address
73, 77 (Inclusive) Kirk Brae, TD1 1NH
OS grid reference
NT 487 364
Coordinates
55.61851, -2.81539
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

73 and 77 Kirk Brae is a tenement building dated 1888. It is three stories high with upper breaking eaves and features a nine-bay façade arranged in three groups of three. The building is set into a steep gradient site, with steps on each side providing exterior access to the rear upper floors. The exterior walls are made of coped angled rubble, and there are cast-iron railings leading to the entrance steps of the raised ground floors and bin stores. The doors to the middle floor are located in a rear pend, with walkways to the top floor that form arches above.

The building is constructed with stugged coursed ashlar, which includes raised rybats with stop-chamfered arises and canted stone cills. The rear is made of coursed whinstone rubble. It features a banded eaves course and pedimented stone dormers at the breaking eaves.

The windows are 4-pane timber sash and case types, although those at the lower levels are boarded up. The entrance doors are four-panel timber with small fanlights, and there are nine-pane cast-iron rooflights at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews and gabletted skew putts. The building has tall corniced ashlar end stacks with tall ventilator clay cans, cast-iron downpipes, and decorative cast-iron gutter brackets. Iron railings are present on all steps and stairways.

The interior has not been seen due to unknown ownership.

Local climate

73, 77 (Inclusive) Kirk Brae receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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