Lucy Sanderson Cottage Homes, Galashiels is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1971. Housing complex. 1 related planning application.
Lucy Sanderson Cottage Homes, Galashiels
- WRENN ID
- riven-cellar-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1971
- Type
- Housing complex
- OS grid reference
- NT 502 350
- Coordinates
- 55.60665, -2.79136
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lucy Sanderson Cottage Homes in Galashiels is a housing complex designed by Mears and Carus-Wilson between 1930 and 1933. It features a central hall and apartments, with eight pairs of semi-detached cottages arranged around a village green. The buildings are constructed from whin and sandstone rubble, accented with buff sandstone ashlar dressings, and topped with prominent steep-pitched green Westmoreland slate roofs.
The hall is a rectangular-plan gabled structure that includes a striking octagonal ogee-roofed clock tower made of rubble. It has a bolection-moulded doorpiece with a carved panel above, full-height windows with gabled dormer-heads, and a vaulted ceiling inside. The interior also showcases murals depicting the process of woollen textile manufacture from sheep to finished cloth. To the east of the hall is the former matron's accommodation.
Adjoining the hall to the west are the Ida Hayward Cottages, which include a former sick bay designed as a two-storey house with upper breaking eaves and gabletted dormers. There is also a single-storey five-bay wing extending further west.
The Lucy Sanderson Cottages consist of eight pairs of semi-detached cottages, each with varying plans but all generally rectangular in shape. They feature a simple layout characterized by steep piended roofs and distinctive capped stacks. Throughout the complex, there are multi-pane timber sash and case windows and notable stone stacks.
Local climate
Lucy Sanderson Cottage Homes, Galashiels receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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