49, 50 Market Place, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. House. 3 related planning applications.

49, 50 Market Place, Selkirk

WRENN ID
south-sill-lake
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
House
Address
49, 50 Market Place, Selkirk, TD7 4BL
OS grid reference
NT 469 284
Coordinates
55.54682, -2.84235
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

49 and 50 Market Place in Selkirk is a mid-19th century building with later additions and alterations. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and features three bays, providing shop accommodation on the ground floor. The exterior is made of channelled ashlar with some rendered repairs and is harled on the southeast side. There is a base course and a band course or fascia between the ground and first floors.

On the northwest elevation facing the market place, there is a panelled two-leaf door in a roll-moulded doorway at the center of the shopfront, flanked by two fixed-pane shop windows. To the outer left, there is a panelled door leading to the tenement, which has a rectangular plate glass fanlight above it. Each bay on the first floor has a window, and there are gabled dormer windows in the outer bays of the attic that break the eaves, topped with ashlar coped dormerheads.

The southeast elevation includes a two-storey platformed addition at the ground level in the left and center bays. There is a window on the first floor and another in the attic, which breaks the eaves and has a half-piended dormerhead above it in the right bay.

The building features four-pane timber sash and case windows and has a slate roof with a platform at the apex. There is a piended skylight on the platform to the southwest and brick coped mutual stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1996.

Local climate

49, 50 Market Place, 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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