1 Hume's Close, Selkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1996.

1 Hume's Close, Selkirk

WRENN ID
upper-baluster-sunrise
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 December 1996
OS grid reference
NT 469 284
Coordinates
55.54667, -2.84167
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Hume's Close in Selkirk is a mid-19th century, two-storey terraced tenement with an attic, which may include some earlier fabric. The building features three bays and has shop accommodation on the ground floor. It is situated on sloping ground that falls to the northeast. The exterior is finished in painted droved ashlar with polished ashlar dressings at the ground level, while the upper part is made of painted squared whinstone with polished ashlar margins and droved ashlar tails. There is a band course at the lintel height of the ground floor and a cill course for the first-floor windows, along with an eaves course.

On the northeast elevation facing Market Place, the first floor has regularly spaced bays, each containing a window. The centre features a modern glazed door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight above it. To the left, there is a plate glass fixed-pane shop window, while the bay to the right is partly blinded. There is also a panelled door on the outer left.

At the rear of the building, there are four two-storey terraced houses that project at right angles from the Market Place front, stepping down the slope. Each house has three bays, except for the two-bay house to the northeast. The materials used for these buildings include two harled houses, one made of squared whinstone with red sandstone dressings, and one that is cement-rendered.

The first floor of the northeast elevation has modern glazing. The building has a slate roof with brick mutual stacks and half-piended dormers on the outer bays of the northeast elevation. The rear additions also have slate roofs with varying ridge heights and pitches. The interior was not seen in 1996.

Local climate

1 Hume's Close, 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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