16, 18 High Street, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996. Tenement.

16, 18 High Street, Selkirk

WRENN ID
half-bailey-rye
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 December 1996
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Earlier 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay tenement with shop at ground. Squared and snecked whinstone with polished ashlar margins, droved ashlar tails to windows at 1st floor; whinstone rubble at ground with harling at 1st floor to SE and SW elevations; harled NE elevation with ashlar cills. Quoin strips with flush long and short droved ashlar quoins; stop-chamfered arrises to door openings at ground.

NW (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: deep-set partly-glazed shop door to right of centre; partly-glazed door with plate glass rectangular fanlight above to left of centre. Each flanked by large plate glass windows (set in later 19th century shop front in bay to right). Window to each bay at 1st floor. Evidence of former uniting, corniced shop fascia.

SE ELEVATION: full-height projection from bay to left. Further projection to NE.

Variety of windows, modern plate glass swinging windows to NW at 1st floor with plate glass fixed-pane windows at ground; plate glass and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof with ashlar coped skews and skewputts. Ashlar coped wallhead stacks to side elevations.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1996.

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