Harmony House, St Mary's Road, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Harmony House, St Mary's Road, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- errant-sandstone-nettle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Harmony House, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 547 342
- Coordinates
- 55.59993, -2.72038
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Harmony House, located on St Mary's Road in Melrose, was built in 1807 with later additions. This two-storey building features a basement and attic, with a three-bay front facing south. The central bay is advanced and has a pedimented entrance at the ground floor, which is approached by steps and includes a projecting porch supported by Ionic columns. The entrance door is flanked by sidelights and topped with a segmental arched fanlight. The first-floor window is tripartite. The house has a wallhead cornice and blocking course, with rusticated quoins at the corners. It has a piended roof with a pair of rectangular corniced stacks at the ridge and a central piended dormer in the attic. The south front is constructed of coursed squared whinstone with freestone dressings, while the flanks and rear are made of coursed squared rubble. At the rear, two wings were added on either side of a projecting bow, with the northeast wing being taller and featuring a castellated parapet.
The garden walls are tall and made of rubble, topped with flagged coping. There are a pair of corniced piers with wooden gates to the east.
Local climate
Harmony House, St Mary's Road, 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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