47, 48 Market Place, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

47, 48 Market Place, Selkirk

WRENN ID
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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
Tenement
Address
47, 48 Market Place, Selkirk, TD7 4BL
OS grid reference
NT 469 284
Coordinates
55.5468, -2.84224
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

47 and 48 Market Place in Selkirk is a mid-19th century two-storey building with an attic, featuring three bays and a shop on the ground floor, along with a fragment of a former adjoining neighbour. The structure is constructed of stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings, and has a line-rendered chamfered corner on the outer left of the north elevation. The east and south elevations are harled. There is a fascia and cornice between the ground and first floors, as well as an eaves course.

On the north elevation facing Market Place, there is a fixed-pane plate glass shop window in the center at ground level. To the right is a panelled and glazed shop door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight above, while to the left is a panelled door with a plate glass letterbox fanlight. The first floor features regular windows.

The south elevation includes a lean-to single-storey addition, with a window at the first floor to the left of center. The building has four-pane timber sash and case windows, except for modern glazing on the window to the south. The roof is slate with a brick coped mutual stack to the west. The north elevation has a half-piended canted three-light window in the center of the attic, a modern platformed dormer window in the left bay, and a half-piended dormer to the left of center on the south elevation, along with a two-pane skylight to the right.

The interior was not seen in 1996.

Local climate

47, 48 Market Place, 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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