Corn Exchange, 12 Market Square, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Commercial building.
Corn Exchange, 12 Market Square, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- iron-baluster-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1981
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Corn Exchange, 12 Market Square, Melrose, TD6 9PN
- OS grid reference
- NT 547 339
- Coordinates
- 55.59718, -2.71979
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Corn Exchange, located at 12 Market Square in Melrose, was designed by David Cousin and built between 1862 and 1863 in the Scottish Jacobean style. This symmetrical building features three storeys and a five-bay front, constructed from coursed squared bull-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings.
On the ground floor, there is a central shop door marked with the date 1863 and the initials DC. To the left of this door is another door, while the right side has a window, both adorned with elaborate strap-work crests. The first floor contains three closely spaced windows at the center, each topped with strap-work pediments and supported by a cast-iron balcony on corbels. The windows in the outer bays are framed by colonettes, also featuring similar pediments.
The upper floor is distinguished by a large crow-stepped gable at the center, which is corbelled out above the first-floor windows leading to the attic. The outer bays have gabled and finialled wall-head dormers. The crow-stepped skews are complemented by rectangular rendered stacks, and the building is topped with a slated roof.
Local climate
Corn Exchange, 12 Market Square, 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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