History in Structure

St. Peter's Old Rectory, Kingsmeadows Road, Peebles

A Category B Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?

Upload Photo »

Approximate Location Map
Large Map »

Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6489 / 55°38'56"N

Longitude: -3.1885 / 3°11'18"W

OS Eastings: 325303

OS Northings: 640126

OS Grid: NT253401

Mapcode National: GBR 6353.HV

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Z8VT

Plus Code: 9C7RJRX6+HJ

Entry Name: St. Peter's Old Rectory, Kingsmeadows Road, Peebles

Listing Name: Kingsmeadows Road, St. Peter's Old Rectory with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384834

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39227

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384834

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale East

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

Tagged with: Villa

Find accommodation in
Peebles

Description

Late 19th century. 2-storey 4-bay robust villa. Whinstone with red sandstone dressings. Stone mullioned and transomed windows, with chamfered reveals. 1st floor windows breaking eaves with gabled dormerheads. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorpiece with 4-centred arch to centre left bay; boarded door with decorative wrought-iron hinges; cusped fanlight; gabled timber canopy with cross-bracing and open timber brackets; at 1st floor bipartite window (no transom) breaking eaves with swept dormerhead. To left, tripartite window with relieving arch at ground, bipartite at 1st floor. Centre right bay advanced and gabled; bipartite windows with relieving arches to both floors. Right bay with bipartite window at ground (relieving arch) and single window at 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: gabled; single window to each floor at centre. Apex stack.

S ELEVATION: 4-bay. Right and centre left bays with canted windows at ground (bipartite to front), with solid parapets and bipartite windows at 1st floor. Centre right bay with bipartite windows; small at ground and stair above. Left bay with single windows to both floors.

W ELEVATION: M-gabled; irregular fenestration. Variety of timber sash and case windows; 4-pane upper sashes (sashes slide behind mullions). Grey slates; terracotta ridge tiles with finials. Coped ashlar dressed stacks.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble boundary walls with saddleback ashlar coping; some boulder coping. 2 pairs of square ashlar gatepiers with flattened pyramidal caps.

External Links

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

Other nearby listed buildings

BritishListedBuildings.co.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. All government data published here is used under licence. Please do not contact BritishListedBuildings.co.uk for any queries related to any individual listed building, planning permission related to listed buildings or the listing process itself.

British Listed Buildings is a Good Stuff website.