Melrose, East Port, House Adjoining Ship Inn
House (18th Century)
Site Name Melrose, East Port, House Adjoining Ship Inn
Classification House (18th Century)
Canmore ID 231507
Site Number NT53SW 213
NGR NT 54799 33945
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/231507
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Melrose
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Roxburghshire
Publication Account (1998)
The Ship Inn at East Port figure 23.Q & 24, although much altered in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries retains some of its original late eighteenth-century character. Built as two dwellings, they were converted into an inn in the mid nineteenth century. The skew putts on the east and west flank walls and the massive rectangular chimneys at the wall head are indications of the original wall-head gable that was removed in the mid nineteenth century.
Information from ‘Historic Melrose: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1998).