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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17845281

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)