Reservoir, Craig Brown Avenue, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. Water tank. 1 related planning application.
Reservoir, Craig Brown Avenue, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- bitter-keep-juniper
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1996
- Type
- Water tank
- OS grid reference
- NT 473 284
- Coordinates
- 55.54652, -2.83597
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a reservoir located on Craig Brown Avenue in Selkirk, dating from the later 19th century. It is a single-storey, four-bay, rectangular water storage tank situated on a mound, with the ground sloping down to the northwest and southwest. The structure is constructed from squared and snecked whinstone, featuring stugged ashlar dressings, with quoins and tails at the openings.
On the southeast elevation, the bays are arranged regularly, with boarded shutters covering each opening and arrow-slit openings positioned between the bays. The northwest elevation mirrors the southeast. The northeast elevation is gabled, with a central door flanked by arrow-slit openings.
The roof is slate, with ashlar coped skews and skewputts, and a tab at the apex of each gable. There is a gabled, louvred vent located at the center of the ridge. The interior was not seen in 1996.
Local climate
Reservoir, Craig Brown Avenue, Selkirk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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