Wellwood Park, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk

1852-3; altered and extended, 1911; later alterations and additions. 3-storey, 6-bay (NW elevation) house sited on ground falling to NW. Bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, NW elevation; stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, SE elevation. Base course to SE elevation.

NW ELEVATION: cill course at 1st floor, except in bay to penultimate right and to outer left. Full-height gabled canted bay with 3-light window in bay to inner right with door to centre at ground; transomed bipartite window above at 1st floor, flanked by windows; course between 1st and 2nd floor; swept to square above 1st floor with bipartite window to 2nd floor in gablehead. Bipartite window at ground of bay to inner left with window to left; transomed bipartite window at 1st floor; bipartite window at 2nd floor above, breaking eaves and with gabled dormerhead. Later advanced bay to penultimate right (see Notes), gabled and raised above height of flanking gabled windows; blank except datestone (1853) to gablehead. Slightly advanced bay to penultimate left with window at ground and tripartite window at 2nd floor; balustraded parapet. Bay to outer right as bay to inner right, except with window at ground. Engaged 3-storey tower in bay to outer left and to outer left corner; band course between each floor and eaves course; window to each floor.

SE ELEVATION: 2-storey, 4-bay. Door at ground with bipartite window at eaves in bay to inner left. Gabled bay to outer right with 2 broadly- spaced windows at ground; corbelled canted oriel window at 1st floor above. Later advanced stack from ground to outer right. Window to right of bay to inner left; wall of addition to re-entrant angle projecting from centre of bay; tripartite window at 1st floor above, breaking eaves and with gabled dormerhead. Projecting bay to outer left; gabled; door with consoled platformed canopy, flanked by windows; consoled canted oriel at 1st floor above in gablehead. Screen wall to addition to each flanking re-entrant angle with swept coped wallhead.

SW ELEVATION: 2-storey, 2-bay, each bay gabled. Tripartite transomed window at ground of bay to right with window at 1st floor above. Canted window at ground of bay to left with transomed windows; tripartite window at 1st floor above.

Variety of timber sash and case windows, including 4-pane, 8-pane, lying-pane and plate glass. Some fixed pane leaded windows. Slate roof. Exposed rafters at eaves. Intricate pierced bargeboarding to gables of SE and SW elevations. Ashlar coped stacks; octagonal coped ashlar grouped stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: whinstone rubble walls with droved coping. Square-plan ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal top.