9Market Place, 8, Selkirk

This building, located at 9 Market Place and 8 Selkirk, dates from the mid-19th century and has undergone later alterations, particularly to its shopfronts. It is a two-storey, three-bay tenement that forms a terrace on a corner site. The first floor is constructed of painted whinstone rubble, while the ground floor features painted polished dressings and rendered dressings on the first floor. The side elevation to 8 Market Place is line-rendered, and the elevation to 4 Ettrick Terrace is made of bull-faced stone with polished dressings, with a rendered section to the left. The building has quoins and tabs at the margins, a cornice between the ground and first floors, an eaves course, and a mutule cornice.

On the southeast elevation facing Market Place, there are roll-moulded surrounds to the ground floor openings. The central bay at ground level has a panelled door with a plate glass fanlight above, set in a segmental-arched opening, and a Caledonian Insurance Company firemark above it. There are two segmental-arched openings in each of the flanking bays at ground level, which are flanked by columns with crocket capitals. Each of these bays has a deep-set shop glazed door leading to the inner openings and a window at the first floor above.

The southwest elevation facing Ettrick Terrace is irregular with six bays, roughly grouped in twos. The right bay of the central group has a panelled door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight above it, along with a window at the first floor. The left bay features a shop window at ground level and a glazed door to the immediate right, with a window above. There is a panelled door in the bay to the right of the two-bay group on the left at ground level, which has a blank space above at the first floor. Additionally, there is a window at ground level in the bay to the left of the gabled two-bay group on the right, which also has a blank space above at the first floor.

The building features plate glass timber sash and case windows, except for the plate glass fixed-pane shop windows on the southeast elevation. There are two gabled dormers breaking the eaves in each bay of the central group on the southeast side. The roofs are slate, with a two-pane 19th-century rooflight on the southeast and a modern rooflight on the outer left of the southwest elevation. There are ashlar coped wallhead stacks on the southwest and northwest elevations.

The interior was not seen in 1995.