Town Arms Inn, 1 Market Place, Selkirk

The Town Arms Inn, located at 1 Market Place, Selkirk, dates to 1876 and was converted into a public house in 1905, with later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey building with an attic, set on ground that slopes to the southwest.

The building is constructed in a Baronial style. The ground floor is faced in polished ashlar, while the first floor and attic are in droved ashlar, with red sandstone bands. The rear is of whinstone rubble with stugged and droved red sandstone dressings. A base course is present, along with a flush red sandstone band at half-height on the ground, first, and attic floors. A rope-moulded course sits below the cornice between the ground and first floors, featuring corbelled skewputts on the outer sections. A moulded eaves course acts as a cill course to the attic windows, which break the eaves. Each window on the first floor is topped with a bracketed cornice. Steeply gabled dormerheads also break the eaves, raised in panels.

On the south-east elevation, a two-leaf panelled door is centered on the ground floor, with a consoled, steep pediment above, featuring ball ornamentation and a carved plaque. A date plaque is positioned above the door on the first floor, protected by a hoodmould. There is a window on each floor of the inner bay to the left. A gabled dormerhead punctuates the attic window, breaking the eaves, and is topped with a rose ashlar finial and carved plaque. A round-arched pend opening, with a rope-moulded hoodmould, is present on the ground floor of the bay to the outer left, with a window above it and another in the attic, also breaking the eaves and bearing a gabled dormerhead, an ashlar fleuron finial and a carved monogram. A window sits on the ground floor of the inner right bay, with a matching window above. A panelled door with letterbox plate glass fanlight is in the outer right bay, above which is a window on the first floor. A crowstepped gable spans the inner and outer right bays, incorporating a bipartite window that breaks the eaves, is topped with a consoled cornice-hoodmould, and bears a round plaque to the gablehead, above which sits an ashlar thistle finial.

The north-west elevation features a carved animal's head set in the gable above the pend entrance.

Predominantly plate glass is set within timber sash and case windows. The roof is slate-covered, with ashlar-coped stacks and crowstepped ashlar skews.

The interior is relatively simple, with good Victorian plasterwork and later fittings. A small lobby leads to an inner hall with a central two-leaf glazed timber door (now fixed closed) etched with 'Wines' and 'Spirits.' Doorways lead to the bar on either side. The ceiling is compartmented, with a deeply-moulded cornice featuring a Scottish thistle frieze. The bar counter is timber-panelled in a U-shape, accompanied by a small, plain gantry. Rear snugs are present, with the one on the right lined with timber boarding. A stair at the rear accesses a large room on the first floor.