Glen Hotel, Yarrow Terrace, Selkirk

The Glen Hotel, located on Yarrow Terrace in Selkirk, is a mid-19th century building with substantial, sympathetic alterations made later. It is a two-storey, three-bay house constructed of squared and snecked whinstone, with droved and polished ashlar red sandstone dressings. A base course and flush quoins are visible, alongside ashlar mullions and transoms.

The north (Yarrow Terrace) elevation features a slightly advanced and gabled bay in the centre. This bay originally contained a bipartite window on both the ground and first floors; the ground floor section of the bipartite is now a doorway. A bipartite window is present at ground level in the bay to the left. A full-height canted corner bay extends to the right, featuring a tripartite transomed window on each floor of the central section, and a bipartite window on each floor of the flanking sections.

The west elevation is six bays, grouped in pairs. The central two bays are slightly advanced and gabled, forming an ‘M’ shape with a quadripartite window at ground level on the left bay and a bipartite window with a window on the outer right. Each bay of this section also includes a tripartite window on the first floor and a window to the gablehead. A former transomed bipartite window, now with a glazed door below the transom, is located to the right of the central two-bay group. A tripartite window is on each floor of the bay to the left, acting as a continuation of the canted corner bay from the north elevation. To the left of the outer right two-bay group is a bipartite window on each floor, with a lean-to conservatory to the outer right, overlapping the adjacent bay. A single-storey bay is situated to the extreme right.

The east (entrance) elevation is four bays, grouped as 1-1-2, with the two-bay group slightly set forward and featuring quoins. Each floor of the bay to the left has a window that breaks the eaves, with a dormerhead above. A two-leaf panelled door is flanked to the right, with a plate glass rectangular fanlight above – formerly topped with a gabled canopy. A bipartite window is at ground level in the bay to the outer right, with a window directly above it. Another bipartite window is at ground level in the bay to the left of the two-bay group, with a first-floor window that breaks the eaves and has a dormerhead. An advanced, single-storey gabled bay is on the outer left, containing a door to the right.

The building incorporates 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with different arrangements for the tripartite and bipartite groups. The roof is slate, with red sandstone coped stacks, exposed rafters at the eaves, and terracotta cresting. Kingposts are present at each gablehead (except the west elevation) and on the dormerheads. A cast-iron weathervane is located on the canted corner bay of the north elevation.

Inside, a timber banister staircase is lit by a rooflight set within a coved ceiling. A minstrels' gallery with a timber balustrade overlooks the staircase on the first floor. There is embossed “anaglypta” paper, possibly original, on the dado. Panelled ingoes are present on some doors, along with some original panelled doors. Later timber panelling is found in the dining room and present bar. Shutters with original brass fittings remain. Fine stained glass is incorporated into the upper panels of the transomed windows in the dining room.

The boundary walls are constructed of whinstone rubble with rubble coping, and the ashlar square-plan gatepiers to the northeast have ogeed coping.