41, 43, 47, 49 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. 5 related planning applications.
41, 43, 47, 49 High Street, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- secret-rafter-crag
- 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
- Address
- 41, 43, 47, 49 High Street, Selkirk, TD7 4BZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 470 285
- Coordinates
- 55.54802, -2.8406
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
41, 43, 47, 49 High Street in Selkirk is a mid-19th century terraced tenement with later additions and alterations. It is two stories high with an attic and features five bays, grouped as two on the left and three on the right. The building is constructed from painted squared and snecked whinstone, with droved ashlar dressings on the two-bay group to the left and polished ashlar dressings on the three-bay group to the right. It has a base course, stallrisers, a cornice above the shop fascia on the two-bay group, an eaves course, and slightly advanced long and short quoins.
On the southeast elevation facing High Street, the two-bay group has a deep-set glazed door flanked by plate glass fixed windows, with an additional door to the outer left that has a plate glass rectangular fanlight above. There is a window in each bay at the first floor, grouped to the left. The three-bay group features a plate glass panoramic window at the ground level, with an entrance set back to the outer right and regularly-disposed windows at the first floor.
The two-bay group has four-pane timber sash and case windows, while the three-bay group has modern glazing. The roof is slate with ashlar coped mutual stacks, and there are canted piended dormers on the two-bay group along with modern skylights on the three-bay group. The skews are coped, and there is a moulded gutter on the two-bay group. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
41, 43, 47, 49 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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