Abbey House, Abbey Street, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. House.

Abbey House, Abbey Street, Melrose

WRENN ID
floating-pewter-honey
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
OS grid reference
NT 547 341
Coordinates
55.59902, -2.7194
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Abbey House, located on Abbey Street in Melrose, is a building from the later 18th century. It is a two-storey structure with three bays, featuring a later extension to the west that is also two storeys high and has two closely spaced bays. The exterior is finished with harled ashlar and has chamfered margins around the windows. The south front showcases a Tuscan pilastered entrance doorway at the centre of the three-bay block. The building includes two roof-lights in the attic, straight skews, and a slated roof, along with rectangular harled mid and end stacks that have block cornices.

Local climate

Abbey House, Abbey Street, 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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