6, 8 West Port, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
6, 8 West Port, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-brass-stoat
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1996
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 6, 8 West Port, Selkirk, TD7 4DG
- OS grid reference
- NT 469 284
- Coordinates
- 55.54689, -2.8426
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 and 8 West Port in Selkirk is a later 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay terraced tenement that includes shops on the ground floor and regularly arranged windows on the first floor. The building features stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings, a base course, a fascia and cornice above the ground floor, quoin strips, and an eaves course.
On the southeast elevation, there is a window in the center at ground level with an inset door immediately to the right. To the right, there is another window at ground level, along with a modern panelled door on the outer right, which has a rectangular plate glass fanlight above it. To the left, there is a window in the bay with a door on the outer left, featuring a two-panelled lower section and a plate glass upper panel, along with a square fanlight above.
The northwest elevation was not visible in 1995. The first floor has modern glazing, while the ground floor features fixed plate glass windows. The building has a slate roof with an ashlar coped stack to the southwest and profile guttering. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
6, 8 West Port, Selkirk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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