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65 High Street, Peebles

A Category C Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6512 / 55°39'4"N

Longitude: -3.1918 / 3°11'30"W

OS Eastings: 325097

OS Northings: 640387

OS Grid: NT250403

Mapcode National: GBR 6343.S0

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Y771

Plus Code: 9C7RMR25+F7

Entry Name: 65 High Street, Peebles

Listing Name: 63-67 (Odd Nos) High Street

Listing Date: 23 February 1971

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384789

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39195

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384789

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

Tagged with: House Shop

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Description

Mid 18th century; later alterations and additions. 2-storey 5-bay house with modern shops, pend leading to close (Parliament Square) with 2-storey W side and single storey N side (former coachhouse). Smooth render to front, harl to rear.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: plain stop-chamfered late 19th century shop front to centre; pend to left. Broader bay to centre with single window and nepus gable, small window to gablehead with ogee lintel dated 1759. Regular fenestration to flanking bays.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: much altered with forestair leading to 1st floor, 2 modern dormers.

E SIDE: 2-storey (upper storey slate-hung), moulded doorway with dated lintel 'R S H M 1743'.

W SIDE: gabled, 2-bay, single storey former coach house with 2 infilled keystoned segmental arches, doorway in right arch.

Row of exposed rafters above; ashlar skew with pyramidal apex finial.

Modern replacement windows throughout. Purple-grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

Statement of Interest

Parliament Square takes its name from the meeting of the Scots Parliament nearby in 1346, after the Battle of Neville's Cross.

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