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Latitude: 55.6524 / 55°39'8"N
Longitude: -3.1872 / 3°11'13"W
OS Eastings: 325393
OS Northings: 640508
OS Grid: NT253405
Mapcode National: GBR 6352.SM
Mapcode Global: WH6V5.06L5
Plus Code: 9C7RMR27+W4
Entry Name: Green Tree Inn, Eastgate, Peebles
Listing Name: Eastgate and Venlaw Road, Green Tree Inn
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384753
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39166
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384753
Location: Peebles
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Peebles
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Early and late 19th century; early 20th century; altered JD Cairns and Ford, 1974. Hotel of various building periods on corner site. Unified by white painted render and green cement mouldings.
S BLOCK (EARLY 19TH CENTURY): regular 2-storey 5-bay block with 2-bay gable to Eastgate. Large windows to each bay of each floor; moulded architraves and cills; cornice course at ground; cill course at 1st floor. Base course; moulded eaves with cast-iron gutter as cornice. Gablet skewputt to SW.
Rear elevation blank; adjoins garage at ground.
N BLOCK (LATE 19TH CENTURY): 2-storey and attic 3-bay extension of earlier block. 3 gabled ashlar wallhead dormers with stop-chamfered arrises. Largely obscured by later block.
NW BLOCK (EARLY 20TH CENTURY): picturesque single storey block; base course. Earlier N section with cornice and part balustraded, part decorative cast-iron, parapet; diminutive swan-necked pediment at centre; urns on pedestals. Round tower to S with pepperpot roof and ball finial behind shpaed parapet. To Venlaw Road, double Venetian window with cill course and 3 square windows. To S, later and lower entrance block obscuring 2 N bays of 1st block, with tripartite window to W and paired door and window to Eastgate; cornice and cast-iron brattishing.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews; coped apex stacks (S stack corniced).
INTERIOR: not seen 1994.
This was called the Green Tree Inn by 1859.
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