50, 52 High Street, Selkirk is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. Commercial, residential. 2 related planning applications.

50, 52 High Street, Selkirk

WRENN ID
peeling-newel-oak
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 December 1996
Type
Commercial, residential
Address
50, 52 High Street, Selkirk, TD7 4DD
OS grid reference
NT 471 285
Coordinates
55.5481, -2.83973
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

50 and 52 High Street in Selkirk is a late 19th century to early 20th century, two-storey building with an attic, designed as a Renaissance-style terraced tenement. It originally served as a bank and features commercial accommodation on the ground floor. The ground floor is constructed of red sandstone ashlar, while the first floor is made of bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, an entablature between the ground and first floors with a cornice that serves as a cill course for the first floor, and fluted triglyphs in the frieze. The eaves are accentuated by a cornice and a Baroque balustraded parapet, with additional cornices above each window on the first floor.

On the northwest elevation facing High Street, there is a roll-moulded tripartite window at the center of the ground floor, featuring timber mullions, a transom, and joggled lintel stones. To the left is a panelled door leading to No 52, topped by a mutuled corniced lintel and a tripartite, timber mullioned, multi-paned semicircular fanlight, all set within a roll-moulded segmental-arched doorpiece with a fluted keystone. To the right is a deep-set panelled door for No 50, with a cornice and a deep-set semicircular fanlight above. The center of the first floor has a window with strapwork carving above, possibly featuring a monogram (TSB?). Above this is a crowstepped gable that breaks the eaves, containing a bipartite window with a cornice and a corbelled ashlar coped wallhead stack at the apex. The flanking bays also have windows on the first floor.

The southeast elevation was not visible in 1995. The center ground floor window has leaded upper panels with stained glass shields, while the building features 8-pane upper case and 2-pane lower case timber sash and case windows. The slate roof includes dormers in each of the outer bays, and there are ashlar coped mutual stacks.

The interior was not fully observed in 1995, but it includes a timber banister for the stairs and a timber chimneypiece with a mutuled cornice in the principal room.

Local climate

50, 52 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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