Publication Account

Date 1977

Event ID 1018510

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018510

Two hotels in Peebles have seventeenth-century portions. The Cross Keys Inn is a much-altered seventeenth-century structure (RCAHM, 1967, 279), while the County Hotel, although with an eighteenth-century facade, has a barrel vaulted cellar at the east end of the building on ground floor level which suggests that a portion of the hostelry might be sixteenth-or seventeenth-century (RCAHM, 1967, 277). The building known as Chambers Institution also maintains some sixteenth or seventeenth century portions, although when it was acquired by Mr. Chambers in 1857 the building was completely remodelled to serve as the library, art gallery and museum. It underwent further alterations in 1910 (RCAHM, 1967, 277). In a close known as Parliament Close leading off the south side of High Street is a two-storeyed eighteenth- century structure on the west side of the square (RCAHM, 1967, 277).

Information from ‘Historic Peebles: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1977).