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1 Bridge House Terrace, Peebles

A Category C Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.652 / 55°39'7"N

Longitude: -3.1927 / 3°11'33"W

OS Eastings: 325043

OS Northings: 640476

OS Grid: NT250404

Mapcode National: GBR 6342.LR

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.X6TF

Plus Code: 9C7RMR24+RW

Entry Name: 1 Bridge House Terrace, Peebles

Listing Name: 1-5 (Inclusive Nos) Biggiesknowe, and 1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Bridge House Terrace with Forestairs and Balcony

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384713

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39140

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384713

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

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Description

1736, partially rebuilt 1872; restored 1984. 2-storey and attic

flatted terrace with balcony access; 2 identical blocks of 4 flats to

E; W block with 2 shops at ground and flat above. Harled with ashlar margins and quoin strips; doors with rectangular plate glass fanlights.

N (BIGGIESKNOWE) ELEVATION: symmetrical E blocks with paired doors to centre at ground, flanked by narrow windows, and windows to outer bays; at 1st floor pair of narrow windows at centre and windows to outer bays. Irregular W block with door flanked by windows at ground; at 1st floor window to left and pair of narrow windows to right.

W ELEVATION: gabled; shop at ground with 2-leaf glazed door at centre flanked by large segmental-headed plate glass windows with recessed aprons; date stone, 1984, above door. Pair of windows at centre at 1st floor. Framed panels in gablehead dated 1736 and 1872.

S (RIVER) ELEVATION: E blocks as above but with floors reversed; smaller windows flanking doors; access to flats via balcony supported on cast-iron columns; pair of piend-roofed canted dormers to each block; far right window at ground (to No 5 Biggiesknowe) converted to back door with steps to ground. W block with pair of windows at ground (that to left largely obscured by steps to balcony); at 1st floor door to left flanked by small windows, and window to right; single dormer to right, as above, and Velux window to left.

E ELEVATION: blank gable with adjoining buildings abutting to right.

Originally (1872) 4-pane timber sash and case windows but many modern windows. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks with ashlar quoin strips and coping.

Statement of Interest

Comparable to, but distinct from, the slightly earlier 'colony' housing in Edinburgh. Presumably rebuilt in 1872 under the auspices of William Chambers.

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