54, 56 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. 1 related planning application.

54, 56 High Street, Selkirk

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

Description

Late 19th century with later additions and alterations. 3-storey, 2-bay terraced tenement with shops at ground. Painted polished ashlar at ground; stugged ashlar to upper storeys with polished ashlar dressings. Cornice between ground and 1st floor (above fascia) and also between 1st and 2nd floor, eaves course, flush quoins; stop-chamfered arrises.

NW (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: large fixed plate glass shop window at ground between bays and also to right, set in pilaster colonnade.

2 2-leaf panelled doors in bay to left with 2-pane (outer left) and plate glass (penultimate left) rectangular fanlight above. Bipartite window to each floor of each bay with foliate carved stone above each at 1st floor; breaking eaves at 2nd floor with curvilinear dormerhead, each with carved ornamentation to gablehead; ashlar thistle finial to left (finial to right removed).

SE ELEVATION: not seen, 1995.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Slate roof, with ashlar coped skews and skewputts. Ashlar coped wallhead (NE) and mutual (SW) stacks. Gothic-composite capitals to outer at ground, clasping rainwater downpipe.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

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