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2 High Street, Jedburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Jedburgh, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4779 / 55°28'40"N

Longitude: -2.5554 / 2°33'19"W

OS Eastings: 364994

OS Northings: 620592

OS Grid: NT649205

Mapcode National: GBR B5L3.K4

Mapcode Global: WH8YH.QKCY

Plus Code: 9C7VFCHV+5V

Entry Name: 2 High Street, Jedburgh

Listing Name: 2 High Street, 1 Exchange Street and 12 Market Place

Listing Date: 23 March 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 380157

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35558

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200380157

Location: Jedburgh

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Jedburgh

Electoral Ward: Jedburgh and District

Traditional County: Roxburghshire

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

1866. 3-storey and attic 4-bay Baronial corner tenement with shops at ground. Snecked cream sandstone with ashlar dresings; stop-chamfered arrises. Rounded corner, with date plaque 1866, corbelled to square at attic, as part of corbel table. SE (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 5 shouldered shop-bays at ground with replacement fascia; 3-bay shop to right with deep-set door flanked by plate glass display windows on panelled base; similar corner shop to left with modern multi-pane door to right; canted angle now modern multi-pane shop window with corbel to dentilled cornice above (originally door to Exchange St shop). Tenement floors of 5 bays with blank, gabled centre bay; single windows to other bays except at 1st floor where tripartite window with ashlar mullions spans right bays. At attic, windows break eaves with crested gabled dormerheads; at centre, corbel table breaks over blank panel. Square coped stack to corbelled corner to left. Return to right with crowstepped gablehead.

SW (EXCHANGE STREET) ELEVATION: shouldered shop window at right with multi-pane modern window below dentilled cornice. To left split door (12 Market Place) with semi-circular fanlight; projecting square-headed stugged shallow canopy supported at shoulder height by brackets; small square stair window above at 1st floor. Residential floors with bays slightly displaced to right; single window at 1st floor; bipartites to 2nd floor and attic. Crowstepped gable to whole elevation abutts stack to right, blank shield above window.

4-pane timber sash and case windows, some replaced by plate glass (notably at 1st floor). Grey slates; ashlar skews to dormers.

Statement of Interest

The building appears on the engrave billhead of J Turnbull, silk mercer in Jedburgh, who occupied the right hand High Street shop in the 1870's. It is in Peddie and Kinnear's style of burgh Baronial.

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