Whitestone House, Innerleithen Road, Peebles is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. House.
Whitestone House, Innerleithen Road, Peebles
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-render-violet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1995
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 256 403
- Coordinates
- 55.65106, -3.18272
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Whitestone House, located on Innerleithen Road in Peebles, is a late 19th-century, two-storey, four-bay house constructed from whinstone with red sandstone dressings. The building features overhanging eaves and exposed rafters, with a regular arrangement of windows.
On the north elevation, the main three-bay block is positioned to the left and includes a pilastered and corniced doorpiece at the center. This features a panelled door with "WHITESTONE HOUSE" carved in the frieze, and a plate glass fanlight above, topped by a pediment supported by scroll-flanked panelled dies. The left bay is advanced and gabled, showcasing a tripartite window on the ground floor and a Venetian window on the first floor. To the far right, there is a lower two-storey bay that is set back slightly.
The east elevation, which faces the park, is an irregular three-bay design. It has a stone mullioned and transomed stair window at the center, a window to the right on the first floor, and a bipartite window at ground level to the left. There is also a Venetian window on the first floor with a gabled dormer head. A timber gable is applied to the wallhead stack.
The south elevation consists of a two-bay principal block. On the ground floor, there is a tripartite window to the right and a piend-roofed canted window to the left. The first floor features Venetian windows with gabled dormer heads. There is a slightly set back bay to the left with a pentice roof.
The west elevation is an irregular two-bay design that steps down to the right. The house is fitted with timber sash and case windows, showcasing a variety of glazing. The roofs are piended and covered with grey slates, and there are corniced stacks with decorative square cans.
The boundary walls surrounding the property are made of rubble and topped with semicircular ashlar coping.
Local climate
Whitestone House, Innerleithen Road, Peebles sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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