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Latitude: 55.6512 / 55°39'4"N
Longitude: -3.192 / 3°11'31"W
OS Eastings: 325088
OS Northings: 640380
OS Grid: NT250403
Mapcode National: GBR 6343.R1
Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Y752
Plus Code: 9C7RMR25+F6
Entry Name: Caledonian Railway Hotel, 69, 71, 73 High Street, Peebles
Listing Name: 63-73 (Odd Nos) High Street
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384791
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39196
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Peebles, 69, 71, 73 High Street, Caledonian Railway Hotel
ID on this website: 200384791
Location: Peebles
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Peebles
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
Tagged with: Hotel
Dated 1886. 3-storey 3-bay terraced building with shop at ground and classical ornament. Squared and snecked stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings; painted ashlar at ground. Lugged moulded architraves; chamfered arrises; long and short quoins to 2nd floor; cill courses; consoled cornice. Painted ashlar at ground; moulded archway to pend to left; shop (formerly 2 shops) to right, divided by central pier; set back door to right; narrow pilasters divide plate glass shop windows; cornice. At 1st floor, pair of windows to centre bay with keystones, outer windows surmounted by pedimented panels, bipartite to left. At 2nd floor, shaped aprons, bipartite window to left, single to right; pilastered central bay with window at centre, supporting shaped Dutch gable with pilaster-framed
pedimented oculus at centre and apex stack.
Building extends considerably to rear, stepping down to 3-storey 2-bay early 19th century gable, with lean-to glass-house.
Timber-framed leaded casement windows. Grey-green slates; corniced ashlar apex stacks; ashlar-coped skews; consoled and scrolled skewputts.
INTERIOR: not seen 1994.
Building originally Caledonian Railway Hotel (glass doors survive behind shop counter). Rear section is built over late medieval vaulted chambers (not seen), said to be part of Peebles Castle.
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