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Latitude: 55.654 / 55°39'14"N
Longitude: -3.1924 / 3°11'32"W
OS Eastings: 325065
OS Northings: 640697
OS Grid: NT250406
Mapcode National: GBR 6342.N0
Mapcode Global: WH6V4.X4ZX
Plus Code: 9C7RMR35+J2
Entry Name: 8 Cross Road, Peebles
Listing Name: 8 Cross Road with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384741
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39156
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384741
Location: Peebles
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Peebles
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
Tagged with: Gatehouse
Mid 19th century. Picturesque single storey lodge to Cross Kirk. Whinstone. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and simply decorated bargeboards.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled porch at centre with diagonally boarded and framed door incorporating 2 glazed panels; single bay set back to left with window abutting porch; broad projecting gabled bay to right with large landscape window at centre. Set back to outer right arched pedestrian gateway with diagonally boarded, framed and studded
rectangular gate; decorative wrought-iron hinges; gatepier and gates adjoined to right (see below). Lean-to outhouse canted off to outer left.
E ELEVATION: 3-bay. Projecting gabled gateway at centre with arched opening blocked by whin rubble; gatepier adjoined to right corner. Small windows to flanking bays.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: unseen 1994.
W ELEVATION: broad blank gable to left; projecting lean-to outhouse with boarded door at ground. Porch, set back to right.
Timber multi-pane windows, sash and casement. Grey and purple slates; coped rubble stack.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: rubble whinstone boundary walls with boulder coping. Square whinstone gatepiers with flat caps; boarded and framed 2-leaf carriage gates with decorative wrought-iron hinges.
Built as the lodge to the Cross Kirk enclosure, and contributes considerably to its setting. A Group with the Cross Kirk (see separate listing).
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