High School, Dovecot Park, Selkirk

The High School at Dovecot Park in Selkirk was built in 1896 and has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a single-storey, three-bay school building, accompanied by single-storey outbuildings from the same period located to the southwest. The structure features squared and snecked whinstone, with rough-hewn red sandstone ashlar and polished ashlar mullions and transoms.

On the northwest elevation, there is a bipartite window in the center, with the outer bays slightly advanced and gabled. The left bay contains a tripartite transomed window, and the entrance is now located in the outer right section, which has a flush red sandstone arched lintel above. The right bay features a bipartite transomed window in the center, flanked by additional windows, with a flush red sandstone lintel arch above the bipartite window.

The northeast elevation also consists of three bays, with the center bay advanced and gabled. This bay has two bipartite and transomed windows, along with a datestone at the gablehead. Each flanking bay has a bipartite window. The windows throughout include 9-pane upper sections and 4 or 6-pane lower sections, all of which are timber sash and case. The roof is slate, with red sandstone coped stacks, terracotta cresting, and decorative slate-hung pyramidal-capped ventilators located at the ridge of the outer right side of the northwest elevation and at the center of the northeast elevation.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1995.

The boundary walls and gatepiers are constructed of rubble whinstone with rubble coping. To the north of the school, there are square-plan red sandstone gatepiers featuring bull-faced bands and coping.

The outbuildings, which are of various dates, include later 19th-century structures located to the southwest, which are not attached to the main building. These single-storey outbuildings run in a northeast-southwest direction and are connected to the southwest by a perpendicular building. They are made of whinstone rubble with red sandstone dressings, and part of the northwest elevation of the northeast-southwest range is harled.

The northwest elevation of the northeast-southwest range has two sets of double doors, with one door located to the outer right and another to the left of the perpendicular range. The roofs are slate, with the northeast-southwest range having a piended roof and terracotta cresting, while the perpendicular range features a gambrel roof with terracotta cresting and a metal ventilator at the ridge. There are also glazed panels in the roof. Further outbuildings have been added later.