Hillcrest, Shawpark Road, Selkirk

Hillcrest is a later 19th century, two-storey, three-bay U-plan house located on Shawpark Road in Selkirk. The building is constructed of squared and snecked whinstone, featuring stugged red sandstone dressings, flush quoins, and stop-chamfered arrises.

The southwest elevation is symmetrical, with a central panelled door topped by a rectangular fanlight made of plate glass. This door is sheltered by a gabled canopy supported by timber brackets. Above the door, there is a window on the first floor that breaks the eaves within a gabled dormer. Each flanking bay has bipartite windows at ground level, with corresponding windows above on the first floor that also break the eaves.

The southeast elevation has two bays, with a gabled blank bay on the left. The right bay features a tripartite window at ground level and a window above on the first floor that breaks the eaves in a gabled dormer.

The northwest elevation consists of four bays, with a gabled two-bay group on the right. This group includes a window on the first floor of the inner bay. There is also a window in the inner left bay that breaks the eaves and is gabled, while the outer bays are blank on the first floor.

The northeast elevation has a small service court to the right of the centre and a single-storey outbuilding to the outer right. The house features 4-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows, a slate roof that is platformed at the centre, and exposed roof rafters. There are sandstone coped wallhead stacks on the southeast, northwest, and northeast sides, with octagonal stacks. The gables have plain barge boarding and timber finials on the door canopy and at the first-floor gabled windows on the southwest elevation.

The interior, which was not fully seen in 1995, includes encaustic tiles in the vestibule and a timber banister on the stairs. The boundary walls are made of whinstone rubble with rubble coping, and there are timber double gates to the southeast and a service entrance to the north.