Selkirk Sheriff Court and County Buildings, Ettrick Terrace

David Rhind, 1868-70. Predominantly 3-storey with attic and basement, square-plan court house in richly detailed, asymmetrical Scots Baronial style sited on steeply-sloping high ground to the northwest of Selkirk town centre. Rough-faced sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. Base course. Corbelled string course between ground and first floor. Crowstepped gables and dormers. Stop-chamfered window margins. Corbelled round turrets with conical caps and cast iron finials. Large round 5-storey donjon tower parapet to outer left of rear (northwest) elevation with corbelled parapet of ashlar dies alternating with key-stoned round arches.

Principal (southeast) elevation with roll-moulded door surround to centre with rope-carved hood-mould and knotted stops. 2-leaf panelled door with semi-circular plate glass fanlight. Canted oriel window above at first and second floors with piended ashlar roof set in crow-stepped dormer. Corner-angle corbelled tower to right of centre with small window at first floor and round window at second floor. Southwest elevation engaged square-plan tower with crowstepped gable flanked by 2-bay crowstepped gables with wallhead stack. Bays to right of centre set back with 4 round-arched projecting arcade at ground and shield to gable-head. Northwest elevation with circular-plan full-height engaged tower in bay to inner left, corbelled to square at 3rd floor with crow-stepped gable; window to each floor.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Ashlar and bull-faced sandstone stacks.

The interior, seen in 2014, is arranged around a courtroom at first floor with panelled timber fixtures. Much of the 19th century room plan appears to remain intact. Glazed vestibule with internal 2-leaf door. Barley-sugar cast-iron banister to principal staircase. Main courtroom has timber-panelled Judge's bench with round-arched white marble chimneypiece and cast iron grate to wall behind bench. Central dock enclosed by cast-iron railings and timber handrail and with timber pop-up hatch floor leading down three flights of enclosed stairs to basement cells. Panelled timber jury box and well barrier, raked timber public seating, timber boarded dado, lugged architraves and curved trussed roof with corbels. Replacement seating to jury box. Sheriff's room (adjacent to court) with black marble chimneypiece, plaster ceiling rose and coved ceiling. Round-plan jurors' room within rear tower with plain plasterwork, timber-grained shutters and timber chimneypiece. Plasterwork to hall; timber panelled doors (new fittings).

Whinstone rubble boundary wall with coping, lowered in proximity of building; cast iron railings; square-plan ashlar gatepiers with ball finials.