45 Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk

45 Ettrick Terrace is a mid-19th century house with later alterations and additions. It is a 2-storey, 4-bay rectangular-plan building, subdivided, with a single-storey gig house to the south. The house is constructed of squared whinstone with dressed and polished red sandstone details on the east side, while the south, north, and west sides are made of whinstone rubble with red sandstone dressings. The building features flush quoins and tails at the openings.

The east elevation, facing Ettrick Terrace, is grouped into 1-3 bays. It has a symmetrical 3-bay arrangement with a corniced and pilastered doorpiece, a deep-set panelled door in the centre, and a border-glazed rectangular fanlight above. There is a tripartite window on the first floor above the door, with a window on each floor of the flanking bays. To the left, a later bay is slightly set back and has a modern glazed door, a rectangular fanlight, and a window on the first floor above.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, although the ground floor of the left bay and the first floor of the single bay group have modern glazing. The roof is slate and piended. There are ashlar and whinstone coped wallhead stacks on the south and north elevations, and a brick wallhead stack on the north elevation.

The interior was not seen in 1996.

The boundary walls are made of whinstone rubble with rounded red sandstone coping, which has been lowered and possibly had railings in front of the 3-bay group to the east. There is a cast iron wall-mounted letterbox made by W.T. Allen & Co., London, featuring a George VI cipher from 1936-1952 on the door in the boundary wall to the north of the house.

The gig house is a single-storey, single-bay building with a slated piended roof and a segmental-arched opening to the east. The north elevation is harled, and it has a wallhead ashlar coped stack.