Beech Villa, High Street, Ayton is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 September 1999. House.

Beech Villa, High Street, Ayton

WRENN ID
silent-grate-harvest
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 September 1999
Type
House
Address
Beech Villa, High Street, Ayton, TD14 5QP
OS grid reference
NT 921 611
Coordinates
55.84375, -2.127
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Beech Villa is a possibly late 18th century house with later additions and alterations, located on High Street in Ayton. It is a near-symmetrical, two-storey building with a basement and three bays, forming part of a terrace. The exterior is constructed from rubble with sandstone dressings, featuring droved long and short surrounds to the openings, painted margins, and projecting cills.

On the northeast elevation, there are steps leading to a timber panelled door that is centered at the ground level, topped by a 6-pane fanlight. There are single windows in the flanking bays at the ground level and single windows in all bays on the first floor. To the outer left, there is a boarded timber basement door that is offset.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and has stone-coped skews. There are corniced brick and sandstone ridge stacks with various cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed at the front by a coped rubble boundary wall.

Local climate

Beech Villa, High Street, Ayton receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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