21 Tower Street is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. House, workshop. 1 related planning application.

21 Tower Street

WRENN ID
ruined-bronze-alder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 December 1996
Type
House, workshop
Address
21 Tower Street, TD7 4LR
OS grid reference
NT 471 285
Coordinates
55.54783, -2.83982
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

21 Tower Street is an early 19th century, two-storey, four-bay house and workshop that has undergone later alterations. The building is constructed of whinstone rubble, featuring red sandstone droved ashlar tabs at the margins of the first floor, with concrete margins also at the first floor. Timber lintels are present over the openings at the ground level.

The southwest elevation, which is the principal elevation, is irregular in design. On the ground floor, there is a window to the left of the inner bay, with a boarded door above it on the first floor, accompanied by a five-pane rectangular fanlight. This section features a 1950s concrete, cantilevered forestair. There is a window on each floor of the outer left bay. To the inner right, a boarded door is flanked by a narrower boarded door immediately to the right. The outer right bay also has a window on each floor. The first-floor windows are six-pane timber sash and case, while the ground floor has fixed-pane windows. The building is topped with a modern corrugated roof that includes wallhead stacks on the side elevations.

Local climate

21 Tower Street 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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