Gate And Gatepiers, Anderson's Chambers, Market Street is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006.
Gate And Gatepiers, Anderson's Chambers, Market Street
- WRENN ID
- vast-chapel-brook
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- OS grid reference
- NT 494 361
- Coordinates
- 55.61633, -2.80467
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Anderson's Chambers is a former warehouse building from the later 19th century, now used as offices. It stands two to three stories tall and features a three by ten bay layout. The structure is made of squared sandstone, with rusticated sides and rear, and ashlar dressings. It is prominently located next to Market Street bridge, facing the main route into Galashiels town centre and oriented northwest to southeast. The building has a base course and an eaves band course with a dentil course on the northwest elevation, along with banded ashlar window surrounds.
The front (northwest) elevation is symmetrical and two stories high, featuring a central pilastered and corniced doorway topped with wrought iron cresting. The windows are arranged in bipartite and tripartite configurations.
The side elevations (southwest and northeast) have regular fenestration, with bays grouped in a pattern of 3-1-3-1-2. Each elevation includes two pedimented bays that contain tripartite windows. The northeast elevation has a modern porch and a wide rectangular doorway, indicating later alterations.
The windows throughout the building consist of plate glass and four-pane timber sash and case designs. The roof is covered with purple slate and features two shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks.
Inside, while the warehouse areas have been modernized, they still showcase their original construction with cast iron columns and timber floors. The office section retains original joinery and includes a formal timber stair with turned balusters.
Additionally, there are gate piers with chamfered edges, an iron lamp standard, and a wrought iron gate. A sandstone dwarf wall with cast iron railings runs along the void on the northeast elevation.
Local climate
Gate And Gatepiers, Anderson's Chambers, Market Street 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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