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The Bridge Inn, West Port, Peebles

A Category B Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.651 / 55°39'3"N

Longitude: -3.1927 / 3°11'33"W

OS Eastings: 325040

OS Northings: 640368

OS Grid: NT250403

Mapcode National: GBR 6343.L2

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.X7T5

Plus Code: 9C7RMR24+CW

Entry Name: The Bridge Inn, West Port, Peebles

Listing Name: West Port, the Bridge Inn (And Nanking Chinese Restaurant)

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384911

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39288

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384911

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

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Description

1900. 2-storey gabled Arts and Crafts inn on curved roadside site at entrance to bridge. Rendered; half-timbered gables with bracketed eaves. Red sandstone ashlar dressings at ground; black painted brick base course rises to cills; overhanging eaves, exposed rafters, bargeboards.

PRINCIPAL (STREET) ELEVATION: at centre, 5-light bowed timber window at ground, bracketed to square at 1st floor with arched centre light and gable; to right 2-leaf panelled door with stop-roll-moulded surround, bracketed half-pitched canopy; small dormer with swept roof above. To S tripartite window with ashlar mullions and margins, chamfered arrises, at ground; bipartite breaking eaves at 1st floor with piended dormerhead; blank gabled return. To N, broad gable on bracketed corbel

course above ground; canted tripartite window, arched at centre, in gablehead; at ground, 2-leaf panelled door to right with broad roll-moulded upper surround, bipartite window to left with ashlar

mullion and margins, chamfered arrises. N return with similar gable and 2 mullion and transomed windows at 1st floor.

Timber sash and plate glass, and leaded casement windows. Grey-green slates; decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials. Decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

Statement of Interest

The former inn was demolished in 1899 to make way for the newly widened bridge.

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