St Helens, Waverley Road, Melrose is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.
St Helens, Waverley Road, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- nether-chapel-rush
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Helens, Waverley Road, Melrose, TD6 9AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 536 347
- Coordinates
- 55.60388, -2.7371
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Helens, located on Waverley Road in Melrose, is a building from 1806 that features three bays and is a single storey with a basement. The south front has a central bay that is advanced in a segmental bow, which extends up to form an attic storey. The entrance is situated on the ground floor and includes a fanlight and sidelights framed by a Tuscan pilastrade, accessible by steps that rise over part of the raised basement. The attic floor has a central tripartite window with a cast-iron balcony that spans the width of the bow. The building is constructed of coursed squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings and angle quoins. It has a piended slated roof adorned with two rows of octagonal chimneys, with six on each side flanking the central bow. There is a later two-storey addition to the west, which is also topped with a piended slated roof.
Local climate
St Helens, Waverley 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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