The Hermitage, High Street, Selkirk

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.