52, 54 Mill Street, Selkirk

This is a late 19th-century building in Selkirk, with later alterations. It is a two-storey and attic tenement, built in a Scottish 17th-century style and situated on a corner, rising to the northeast. The exterior is primarily of squared and snecked whinstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings, while the rear of numbers 52 and 54 Mill Street is constructed of whinstone rubble with red sandstone dressings. There is a cill course for the first-floor windows, an eaves course, flush ashlar tails, and quoins, along with crowstepped gables.

The south-facing corner elevation is asymmetrical and 7 bays wide, with a curved section marking the corner of Mill Street and Forest Road. The central bay and the inner left bay are gabled and corbelled at the first floor. A window on the first floor of the central bay is topped with a segmental pediment. A boarded door, set within a moulded doorpiece and a segmental pediment, is positioned between the centre and inner left bays. There’s a window to the left of the gablehead at attic level, a rectangular ashlar plaque to the centre of the gablehead, and windows to each floor of the two outer left bays, with another rectangular ashlar plaque to the outer left. A ground-floor window is located in the inner right bay, and windows are present on each floor of the two outer right bays.

The west-facing Mill Street elevation is 5 bays wide. A panelled door, set within a doorpiece featuring a broken pediment, is located in the centre bay. A small window with a segmental pediment sits above it at the first floor. A ground-floor window is present in the inner right bay, mirroring the first-floor window above in the inner left bay. Each of the outer left bays has a window on each floor, and the outer right bay is gabled, with a window on each floor, including at attic level, all topped with segmental pediments.

The northeast elevation is gabled and is half whinstone rubble, half brick.

The windows are varied, including 12-pane timber sash and case windows, and windows with a 6-pane upper case and plate glass lower sash and case. Modern glazing is present. The roof is slate-covered, with platform-roofed dormers located to the outer left of the south elevation, the inner right and outer right of the south elevation, and the outer left of the west elevation. The exterior features whinstone rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings and coping to the outer left of the west and south elevations, squared whinstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings and coping to the apex of the gable in the centre and inner left of the west elevation, and a similar appearance to the left pitch of the north gable.

The interior was not inspected in 1996.