39 Market Place, 38, Selkirk

39 Market Place and 38 in Selkirk is a mid-19th century building that may include earlier materials, with later additions and alterations. The structure features a two-storey design with an attic and is a three-bay terraced tenement that includes shop space on the ground floor. It is constructed of painted whinstone rubble with raised polished dressings and droved ashlar tails along the margins of the first floor, while the rear and its additions are also made of whinstone rubble. The building has a corniced fascia above the ground floor, a cill course for the first-floor windows, an eaves course, and long and short quoins.

The northeast elevation facing the Market Place has regularly spaced bays on the first floor, each containing a window. At the ground level, there is a panelled two-leaf door in the center, flanked by a plate glass fixed-pane shop window, with a pend entrance to the outer left. The southwest elevation features extensive two-storey additions that form one side of Halliwell’s Close.

The windows are plate glass timber sash and case types. The roof is slate, with modern dormers on the outer bays of the northeast elevation that have modern metal glazing. There is an ashlar coped mutual stack on the northwest side and a brick mutual stack on the southeast. The slate roof on the rear additions varies in pitch and height, with a harled and coped wallhead stack at the center of the southwest elevation, above the gable of the addition.

The interiors of Nos 38 and 39 Market Place were not seen in 1996. Halliwell’s Close, which lines the rear of these properties, follows an old rig pattern and has been converted into a museum.