2-4 Market Place, 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.
2-4 Market Place, Selkirk
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rood-dock
- 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 469 284
- Coordinates
- 55.54706, -2.84245
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2-4 Market Place in Selkirk is a three-storey, three-bay tenement building dating from around 1800, with later alterations and additions. It is part of a terrace and is situated on a slope that falls to the southwest. The building features painted render with painted ashlar dressings and strip pilasters.
On the southeast elevation, there are regularly spaced windows on the first and second floors. A panelled door is located to the left of the centre on the ground floor, with a modern stair and tenement door to the outer left. To the right on the ground floor, there is a square 19th-century shop window.
The northwest elevation was not visible in 1995. The building has modern timber pivot four-pane windows and a purple slated roof, with a harled stack on the right. The interior was also not seen in 1995.
Local climate
2-4 Market Place, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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