The Hermitage, High Street, Selkirk is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1991. House. 1 related planning application.
The Hermitage, High Street, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- carved-glass-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1991
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 471 286
- Coordinates
- 55.54861, -2.8399
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Hermitage is a classical house located on High Street in Selkirk, dating from around 1810 with later alterations and additions. This two-storey, three-bay building is set back from the road and constructed from whinstone rubble, featuring painted stugged ashlar dressings and raised polished ashlar margins. It has a harled single-storey wing to the southwest, with an eaves course, long and short quoins, a blocking course, and a raised red sandstone ashlar tablet at the center of the southwest elevation.
On the southeast elevation facing High Street, the central bay is slightly advanced and adorned with quoins, a blocking course, and a panelled tablet. The deep-set panelled door in the center has a rectangular radial fanlight above it, framed by a corniced doorpiece that includes a decorative carved or possibly stucco panel with a palm motif on the frieze. There is a window at the first floor and additional windows in each flanking bay, with the first-floor windows being smaller. The wing to the left is set back.
The northwest elevation facing Chapel Street features a window in each storey of each bay, along with a window in the wing and a smaller window on the outer right. There is a modern single-storey addition on the outer left with a corrugated platformed roof.
The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a slate shallow piended and platformed roof, which includes two rendered and coped central stacks and a wallhead on the southwest elevation. The addition has a slate piended roof. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1995.
Local climate
The Hermitage, High Street, 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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