55 High Street, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996.
55 High Street, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- small-steel-barley
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1996
- Address
- 55 High Street, Selkirk, TD7 4BZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 470 285
- Coordinates
- 55.54809, -2.8404
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
59 High Street in Selkirk is an early 19th-century, two-storey terraced tenement with an attic and seven bays, featuring shops on the ground floor. The building has a painted line-render finish, with pebbledash on the northeast elevation, and includes a base course and eaves course.
The southeast elevation, facing High Street, has irregularly arranged bays in a 3-2-2 pattern. The central bays feature a modern glazed door in the left bay, a plate glass letterbox fanlight, and a window above on the first floor. To the right, there is a shop window on the ground floor and a window above on the first floor. The left bays contain a panelled door at the centre with a plate glass letterbox fanlight and a window above, while the right bay has a panelled door at ground level with a plate glass letterbox fanlight above and a window on the first floor. The rightmost bays are closely grouped, with a partly glazed door in the left bay, a plate glass letterbox fanlight, and a window above, along with a shop window at ground level in the right bay and a window above.
The northwest elevation has a small addition to the outer right of No. 55. The building features plate glass timber sash and case windows, except for the plate glass fixed-pane shop windows on the ground floor and plate glass swing windows on the first floor in the central bays. The roof is slate, with harled and coped mutual stacks, and there are half-piended tripartite dormers in the outer two-bay groups.
The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
55 High Street, 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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