Mausoleum, Riddell is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 2003.
Mausoleum, Riddell
- WRENN ID
- stranded-spandrel-birch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2003
- OS grid reference
- NT 520 248
- Coordinates
- 55.51467, -2.76153
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1858, although possibly incorporating earlier fabric, the mausoleum is a small, single-bay, rectangular Gothic chapel set within a walled enclosure. It is constructed of stugged ashlar stone with squared rubble to the sides and rear, and has ashlar dressings. The building features an eaves cornice and pointed-arch openings with trefoil details. Hoodmoulds adorn the openings.
The west-facing elevation is gabled and includes a deeply moulded doorway with a boarded timber door and a timber-louvered doorhead. Above the door is the Riddell family coat-of-arms and a Celtic cross finial with a dated base. The south and north elevations each feature two blocked, hoodmoulded pointed-arch openings. The east elevation has a central, hoodmoulded opening and a glazed trefoil in the gablehead.
The roof is covered with stone slates and has decorative, chevroned crenellations with block skewputts to the west and sawtooth skews to the east.
The mausoleum is enclosed by saddleback-coped boundary walls constructed of squared and snecked rubble, with inset ironwork railings and a two-leaf gate. The 1858 date may relate to repairs undertaken for General Sprot.
Local climate
Mausoleum, Riddell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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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