4 High Street, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. Tenement.

4 High Street, Selkirk

WRENN ID
fallen-pewter-peregrine
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
OS grid reference
NT 470 285
Coordinates
55.54739, -2.84094
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 High Street in Selkirk is an early 19th-century, two-storey, four-bay irregular terraced tenement that has undergone later additions and alterations, possibly incorporating earlier materials. The building features shop accommodation on the ground floor, with a shop front added in the later 19th century. It has a painted line-render exterior and painted harl at the rear, along with a base course and droved ashlar flush long and short quoins on the outer left.

On the northwest elevation facing the Market Place, the inner bays are closely grouped. There is a fixed-pane plate glass shop window at the ground floor of the inner left bay, with a window above it on the first floor. A modern glazed door is located at the ground of the inner right bay, with a window above on the first floor. Each floor of the outer right bay has a window, while the outer left bay features an enlarged door at the ground floor and is blank above on the first floor.

The southeast elevation has an irregular arrangement of openings. The first floor has modern glazing, and there is a fixed two-pane window at the ground of the outer right bay. The building is topped with a slate roof, which has a mutual stack made of whinstone and ashlar on the northeast side. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996.

Local climate

4 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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