Presbytery, High Street, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. Presbytery.
Presbytery, High Street, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- empty-vestry-root
- 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
- Presbytery
- OS grid reference
- NT 471 286
- Coordinates
- 55.54865, -2.8396
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The presbytery on High Street in Selkirk is a former school building from the mid-19th century, specifically before 1858, with later additions and alterations. It is a single-storey structure with a rectangular plan and consists of six bays. The exterior is made of whinstone rubble with dressed red sandstone details, and each window features a timber mullion.
On the northeast elevation, the bays are arranged in a 2-4 distribution. There is a window in each bay of the two-bay group and a window in each bay of the four-bay group, except for the projecting gabled porch located in the outer left bay, which has a boarded door and a rectangular fanlight above it. There is also a further addition to the northwest that is set back.
The southeast elevation, facing High Street, has a gabled design with five concrete steps leading up to a door on the outer right and a window in the center. The building features 8-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof over the two-bay group at the southeast end is covered with purple slate, which steps up to a grey slate roof over the four-bay group. The gables display exposed rafters.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996.
Local climate
Presbytery, 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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