Description

Mid 19th century symmetrical 2-storey over basement 3-bay house/tenement. Squared and snecked grey whinstone rubble with light grey sandstone ashlar long and short quoins and dressings. Central shopfront. Early extension to rear.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Central door with adjoining window (later insertion) reached by six stone steps on a stone arch over an open moat; simple stone-faced shopfront with cornice; windows to remaining bays.

SW ELEVATION: whinstone rubble; irregular fenestration; double-pitched extension to rear.

Panelled timber door with plain rectangular fanlight. 12-pane timber sash and case windows to basement, modern glazing to ground floor; 2-pane sash and case to first floor and 4-pane to side elevation. Graded grey slate roof with ashlar skews. Brick wallhead stacks; clay cans. Mostly modern rainwater goods; cast iron hopper to SW.

Cast iron railings to steps and moat (on stone dwarf wall). Stone depressed arch to steep rear garden.

Statement of Interest

Part of a short terrace including Nos. 106 (adjoining) and 108 & 110. The terrace is a good example of a mixture of housing and commercial premises and of a group of simple local stone buildings which make an important contribution to the streetscape of this part of Selkirk, situated as it is on a main road into the town.

This Building is known locally as 'The Porterhouse' and is known to have been a public house. This short terrace of buildings is marked on early O.S. maps as 'Sloethorn Bank' and steps lead directly from the front of this building to Dunsdale Haugh and Ettrick Mill. It is likely that this terrace had some close connection with the nearby Ettrick Mill, founded in 1835-6 and the biggest multi-storey spinning mill in the Borders.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77780594

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy