13 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.
13 High Street, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- winter-rubble-rain
- 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
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 470 285
- Coordinates
- 55.54772, -2.84121
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
13 High Street in Selkirk is a three-storey, two-bay terraced tenement building, dated 1877, with later additions and alterations. The building features a commercial space on the ground floor and is constructed of bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, while the rear is made of whinstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings. There are cill courses at the first and second floors and an eaves course.
The southeast elevation facing High Street is symmetrical. It has roll-moulded broad windows at the ground level, supported by corbels that hold a fascia. Above, there is a bipartite window at the first floor with shouldered arches over the lights, and a trefoil-headed window at the second floor in the gablehead that breaks the eaves, along with bipartite small windows in the centre. The ground floor features a roll-moulded round-arched opening flanking the bays, with a door to the outer left that has a plate glass rectangular fanlight and a datestone at the first floor. To the outer right, there is a pend-opening with a monogram at the first floor.
On the northwest elevation, there is a full-height projection in the centre, along with a modern single-storey addition that links to a modern two-storey outer addition.
The upper storeys have plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the ground floor has fixed plate glass windows. The roof is covered with slate, and there is an ashlar coped stack. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
13 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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