View Holloa, Main Street, Whitsome is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 October 1997. House.

View Holloa, Main Street, Whitsome

WRENN ID
second-flint-spindle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 October 1997
Type
House
OS grid reference
NT 865 506
Coordinates
55.74933, -2.21533
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

View Holloa is a house located on Main Street in Whitsome, dating from the earlier to mid-19th century, around 1845, with later additions and alterations. This symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay house is part of a terrace and was raised from a single storey. To the outer right, there is a single-storey, single-bay garage block.

The front of the house features painted, coursed, and tooled render at the ground level, while the first floor is finished with painted, coursed, and tooled sandstone, along with painted, droved dressings. The rear has painted render at the ground level and tooled rubble sandstone at the first floor, with droved long and short rubble dressings. Notable architectural features include a raised base course, a pilastered and pedimented doorpiece, and projecting cills at the first floor. There is also a single-storey, single-bay outbuilding at the rear.

On the northwest (Main Street) elevation, steps lead up to a timber panelled door at the centre of the ground floor, which is topped by a plate glass fanlight. The doorpiece is flanked by pilasters, has a plain frieze, a cornice, and an acroterion motif above a shallow pediment. A single window is aligned above the door, with additional single windows in both flanking bays. To the outer right, there is a boarded timber garage door.

The southeast (rear) elevation features a modern door offset to the left of centre, with single windows in both flanking bays. A patio door is located in the outer right bay, with a single window above it. A small-paned dormer is present in the single-storey addition to the outer left.

The house has modern four-pane tilting timber windows at the front and modern glazing at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slate and has raised stone skews, with the left skew being mutual with the adjoining property. The apex stack is missing on the right side, while there is a mutual brick-built ridge stack on the left.

The interior was not seen in 1997.

The outbuilding, located on the northwest (entrance) elevation, is constructed of tooled rubble sandstone with droved rubble quoins and droved long and short surrounds to the opening. A boarded timber door is offset to the left of centre, with "VV 1845. S" embossed in the lintel. The outbuilding has a grey slate mono-pitch roof, raised stone skews, scrolled skewputts, and replacement rainwater goods. The interior was also not seen in 1997.

Local climate

View Holloa, Main Street, Whitsome receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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