Former School, Sinclair's Hill is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Former school.
Former School, Sinclair's Hill
- WRENN ID
- proud-flue-bittern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Former school
- OS grid reference
- NT 815 507
- Coordinates
- 55.74976, -2.29502
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former school on Sinclair's Hill dates from the earlier to mid 19th century and features a single storey with an attic, designed in the Cotswold Tudor style. It has a rectangular plan with four bays across the front and one bay deep. The building is constructed from roughly squared and snecked sandstone, with deeply chamfered edges and ashlar dressings, including stone mullions.
The entrance elevation has four bays, with a recessed bay on the outer left that contains a bipartite window. The central bays feature tripartite windows flanking a slightly advanced wallhead stack with a shouldered design. To the right, there is a broad gabled bay with a door that has a 4-centre arch, a hoodmould, and a blank tablet above it.
On the southwest elevation, there is a small window to the left and a large tripartite window at the center, which has a small gablehead light above. The northeast elevation includes a bipartite window. The rear elevation has three tripartite windows on the main block, along with a door in the recessed bay to the right.
The windows are fitted with timber lying-pane glazing in sash and case style. The roof is covered with slate, featuring bands of fishscale slates, sawtooth coped skews, and bracketed skewputts. A stone ridge with metal ventilators is present, along with modern Velux rooflights added to the rear.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
Former School, Sinclair's Hill receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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