51 High Street, Selkirk

53 High Street in Selkirk is a two-storey building with an attic, dating from 1885, featuring later additions and alterations. It is an irregular three-bay terraced tenement that includes commercial space on the ground floor. The exterior is constructed of stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings on the first floor, while the ground floor has painted stugged ashlar with polished dressings in the center and left bays, and painted polished ashlar on the right. A cornice separates the ground and first floors, and the building has long and short quoins in the right bay and around the window margins, along with stop-chamfered arrises.

On the southeast elevation facing High Street, there is a window on the ground and first floors in the center, with a hoodmould above the first-floor window. To the left, a glazed door is flanked by a window on the ground floor, with a plate glass rectangular fanlight above. Above this, there is another window on the first floor, also with a hoodmould. A granite pedimented niche containing a bronze bust commemorates Tom Scott, an artist, located between the first-floor windows of the center and left bays. The right bay is slightly advanced and features a crowstepped gable. The ground floor includes a window with a door to the outer right, and the words "Southern Reporter" are carved above the cornice. There is a bipartite window on the first floor, and a corbelled conical turret to the left of the gable has a shield-shaped datestone at the gablehead.

The northwest elevation has not been seen since 1995. The building features 4-pane timber sash and case windows in the center and left bays, while the right bay has plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is slate, with a platform at the apex of No. 51. There are canted dormers in the center and left bays, which have modern glazing. The turret has a candlesnuffer roof covered in fish-scale slates, topped with a cast-iron weathervane. The building also has ashlar coped stacks with octagonal cans and a coped ashlar skew on the southwest side.