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County Hotel, High Street, Peebles

A Category B Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6515 / 55°39'5"N

Longitude: -3.1902 / 3°11'24"W

OS Eastings: 325203

OS Northings: 640413

OS Grid: NT252404

Mapcode National: GBR 6352.4Y

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Z61V

Plus Code: 9C7RMR25+HW

Entry Name: County Hotel, High Street, Peebles

Listing Name: High Street, County Hotel

Listing Date: 23 February 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384771

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39182

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384771

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

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Description

Possibly late 18th century with 16th/17th century core; mid 19th

century addition. 3-storey 4-bay hotel with columned doorway and central gablet; 3-storey 2-bay bar and pend to W.

Whinstone rubble, rendered to front simulating ashlar. Base course; architraved windows.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: original hotel with columned doorway in bay to right of centre. Ground and 1st floor of outer right bay with tripartite windows with narrow sidelights (alteration, earlier 19th century). Regular fenestration to remaining bays. Raised margin to outer left. Wallhead raised to centre forming gable. Later block with arched pend to right and altered entrance to bar to left; upper floors with windows to each bay; bracketed cills, stop-chamfered arrises; depressed-arched at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: obscured by additions. Sash and case windows; plate glass, small-pane to tripartite windows, 4-pane to addition. Purple slates. Moulded eaves gutters and gutterheads. No stacks to original hotel; ashlar-coped skews and stacks to later block.

INTERIOR: barrel-vaulted room to lower ground floor to E.

Statement of Interest

The barrel-vaulted cellar may indicate that portions of the building are as early as the 16th or 17th century, when Peebles had a large number of so-called bastel houses with vaulted ground floors. Identified in 1823 as the Harrow Inn.

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