Weirhill Cottage, Weirhill Place, Melrose is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Cottage.

Weirhill Cottage, Weirhill Place, Melrose

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 February 1981
Type
Cottage
Address
Weirhill Cottage, Weirhill Place, Melrose, TD6 9SF
OS grid reference
NT 542 343
Coordinates
55.6005, -2.72776
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Weirhill Cottage is an earlier 19th-century building featuring a single storey with an attic. The front is made of ashlar stone and has three bays, with a central door topped by a block pediment. The cottage retains its original 12-pane double sash windows. The chimneys have been reduced in height, and the building has straight skews. Additionally, there are two later attic dormers that are piended and canted.

Local climate

Weirhill Cottage, Weirhill Place, Melrose receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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