Corn Mill, Station Road, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. Waterworks.
Corn Mill, Station Road, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- dusted-corner-lichen
- 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
- Waterworks
- OS grid reference
- NT 467 287
- Coordinates
- 55.54945, -2.84623
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Corn Mill on Station Road in Selkirk dates back to 1903, incorporating earlier materials and featuring later alterations and additions to the southwest. It is a single-storey L-plan building with an 8-bay section to the northeast that has a swept corner to the southeast and a 3-bay return. The structure is built from squared and snecked whinstone with polished red sandstone dressings and bull-faced red sandstone pilasters, complete with a base course and a corbelled cornice.
On the northeast elevation, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay on the inner left, adorned with bull-faced red sandstone quoins. The entrance features a 2-leaf panelled door with a segmental-arched plate glass fanlight above, set within a heavy doorpiece flanked by pilasters with fluted upper sections. These pilasters curve out to a dated entablature that has a small scrolled pediment at the center. Above, a flush ashlar band course leads to a gablehead with a blinded arrow slit. Each bay to the left and right contains a bipartite window, separated by piers.
The southeast elevation features three bipartite windows, also divided by piers similar to those on the northeast side. The northwest elevation has a gabled design with modern steps leading to a 2-leaf panelled door in the left bay. This door is set in an ashlar basket-arched and consoled doorpiece, topped with a diminutive segmental pediment, and the lintel is carved with "Selkirk Water Works." A window is present in the right bay, and there is a carved plaque at the gablehead displaying a town motif.
The building features a variety of windows, a graded slate roof, and a metal polygonal louvred vent. Decorative terracotta cresting adorns the roof, and the gables are fitted with kneelers, coped skews, and skewputts.
The Mill Lade Bridge is located to the northeast and north of the mill, across Station Road. It is a three-panelled cast-iron bridge with secondary girder panelling beneath, flanked by stugged ashlar coped piers to the north. The bridge has been altered to the northeast, with one panel and pier removed.
Local climate
Corn Mill, Station Road, 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Forest Mill, Station Road, Selkirk
- Station Hotel, Station Road, Selkirk
- 52, 54 Mill Street, Selkirk
- 110 Forest Road, Selkirk
- 2, 4, 6, 8 Heatherlie Terrace, Selkirk
- Selkirk Sheriff Court and County Buildings, Ettrick Terrace
- Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary Walls, Selkirk Sheriff Court, Ettrick Terrace
- Ettrick Lodge, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk
- Bridge Park, Old Bridge Road, Selkirk
- 12 Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk