19, 21 West Port, Selkirk

19 and 21 West Port in Selkirk is a two-storey building with an attic, dating from 1888, featuring later additions and alterations. It is designed as a four-bay Scottish 17th century tenement, with a modern shop at the ground floor, forming the end of a terrace. The building is constructed of slugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings on the upper storey and attic, while the rear and northeast elevation are made of whinstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings. A modern harled addition is present on the southeast side. There is a cornice between the ground and first floor, and the first-floor windows have moulded architraves with recessed aprons.

On the northwest elevation facing West Port, the ground floor features a modern shop front with a ceramic finish, alongside a plate glass fixed-pane window to the right and a modern deep-set door to the outer right. The first floor has three grouped bays, with the central bay featuring a window topped by a segmental pediment adorned with strapwork, possibly incorporating monograms. Each of the flanking windows also has a pediment above. The gablehead is crowstep-gabled with a timber-mullioned and transomed tripartite window, and there is a corniced rectangular plaque above. To the outer left, there is a corbelled and slightly advanced bay at the first floor, forming a square-plan tower with a window and strapwork featuring the date above. An ornamental corbel table is present at the eaves course of this bay.

The southeast elevation has a bipartite window at the ground level, with a window above it at the first floor in the outer left bay. There is a full-height addition projecting from the bays to the right, along with a further single-storey harled addition.

The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case, featuring plate glass in the lower case and six-pane windows in the upper case, except for the modern glazing in the first-floor window of the outer left bay on the southeast elevation. The roof is covered with slate, including a modern box dormer on the southeast side and a slate half-piended roof on the rear addition. A stugged ashlar coped wallhead stack is located on the northeast side, and there is a pyramidal slate roof on the outer left of the northwest elevation, topped with a cast-iron finial. The interior was not seen in 1996.