Post Office, Cheadle, Main Street, Gavinton is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1996. Post office.

Post Office, Cheadle, Main Street, Gavinton

WRENN ID
fallen-plinth-merlin
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 February 1996
Type
Post office
OS grid reference
NT 767 521
Coordinates
55.76225, -2.37162
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office in Cheadle, located on Main Street in Gavinton, is a later 19th century building that has undergone some alterations and additions. It is a two-storey, five-bay house that forms the end of a terrace and is finished with harled exterior.

On the north elevation, there is a window at the center of the ground floor, with a piended dormer that breaks the eaves above it. To the inner right, there is a modern partly-glazed door, while the outer right features a panoramic window. The inner left bay has a window, and the outer left bay includes a modern partly-glazed door, also with a piended dormer above.

The south elevation is not fully visible as of 1995, but it features four piended dormers. The building has a variety of modern windows and is topped with a slate roof that includes brick and harled stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

Post Office, Cheadle, Main Street, Gavinton receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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