Town Arms Inn, 1 Market Place, Selkirk

Dated 1876, conversion to public house 1905; later alterations and additions. 2-storey with attic, 4-bay Baronial building on ground falling to SW. Polished ashlar at ground; droved ashlar at 1st floor and attic; red sandstone bands; whinstone rubble with stugged and droved red sandstone dressings to rear. Base course; flush red sandstone band at half-height at ground, 1st floor and attic; rope moulded course below cornice between ground and 1st with corbelled skewputts to outer; moulded eaves course, acting as cill course to attic windows breaking eaves; bracketted cornice to each window at 1st floor. Steeply gabled dormerheads breaking eaves in raised panels.

SE ELEVATION: 2-leaf panelled door to centre at ground with consoled steep pediment above, with ball ornamentation and square, carved plaque to centre; mask to rope-moulded cornice; date plaque at 1st floor above with hoodmould. Window to each floor of inner bay to left; gabled dormerhead to attic window, breaking eaves; rose ashlar finial and carved plaque to dormerhead. Round-arched pend-opening with rope-moulded hoodmould at ground of bay to outer left; window at 1st floor above and at attic, breaking eaves and with gabled dormerhead, ashlar fleuron finial and monograph carved to dormerhead. Window at ground of bay to inner right with window at 1st floor above. Panelled door with letterbox plate glass fanlight above in bay to outer right with window at 1st floor above. Crowstepped gable spanning bays to inner and outer right with bipartite window, breaking eaves and with consoled cornice-hoodmould; round plaque to gablehead above; ashlar thistle finial.

NW ELEVATION: carved animal's head set in gable above pend-entrance.

Predomiantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Slate roof. Ashlar-coped stacks. Crowstepped ashlar skews.

INTERIOR: simple interior with good Victorian plasterwork and later fittings. Small lobby with half-glazed timber door; inner hall with central two-leaf glazed timber door (now fixed closed) etched with 'Wines' and 'Spirits'; doorways to left and right doors to bar. Compartmented ceiling with deeply-moulded cornice with Scottish thistle frieze. Timber-panelled U-shaped bar counter; small plain gantry. Rear snugs, that to right lined with timber boarding. Stair at rear leads to large room at first floor.