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History of Selkirk · Historic Environment Scotland

118 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Selkirk’s locality, 253 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 24 of its listed buildings.

3Category A32Category B1scheduled monument16on High Street
Listed buildings
118
253 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
32
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Selkirk in 24 photos

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Dunsdale Road, Ettrick MillDunsdale Road, Ettrick MillCategory A listedSelkirk Sheriff Court and Justice Of The Peace Court, including gatepiers, railings and boundary walls, Ettrick Terrace, SelkirkSelkirk Sheriff Court and Justice Of The Peace Court, including gatepiers, railings and boundary walls, Ettrick Terrace, SelkirkCategory B listedHigh Street, Council BuildingsHigh Street, Council BuildingsCategory B listed14 Shawpark Road, Dandswall Lodge, Stable and Coach Block with Court, Gatepiers and Railings14 Shawpark Road, Dandswall Lodge, Stable and Coach Block with Court, Gatepiers and RailingsCategory B listed21 Tower Street21 Tower StreetCategory C listed+19See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

The map

Where Selkirk’s history is

Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.

The Haining, garden or designed landscapePhiliphaugh, settlement and burial ground 150m S of Calton Cottage, scheduled monumentBleachfield Road, St John's Episcopal Church with Church Hall and Boundary Walls, Category BDunsdale Road, Forest Mill, Category BDunsdale Road, Riverside or Dunsdale Mill, Category BEttrick Terrace, Ettrick Lodge, Ettrick Dene and Coach House with Boundary Wall, Railings and Gateways, Category BEttrick Terrace, Former Jail, Now Incorporating Public Library, Boundary Walls and Entrance Arch with 1 Chapel Street and Screen Wall, Category BEttrick Terrace, Greenbank with Boundary Walls, Gig House and Wall-Mounted Letter-Box, Category BEttrick Terrace, Wellwood with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BHigh Street and Back Row, Mungo Park (Monument), Category BHigh Street, Council Buildings, Category BHigh Street, Selkirk Parish Church (Church of Scotland), Former Lawson Memorial Church with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings, Category BKirk Wynd, Auld Kirkyard, Old Parish Kirk, Boundary Wall, Railings, Gates and Gateway, Category BMarket Place, Pant Well, Category BMarket Place, Sir Walter Scott Memorial, Category BScotts Place, Flodden Monument, "Fletcher", Category BScotts Place, Victoria Halls with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers, Railings and Fountain, Category BSelkirk Sheriff Court and Justice Of The Peace Court, including gatepiers, railings and boundary walls, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, Category BYarrow Terrace, Glen Hotel, With Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BYarrow Terrace, Heatherlie Manse with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B1 Market Place, Town Arms Inn, Category B101 High Street, Hermitage House, Category B14 Shawpark Road, Dandswall Lodge, Stable and Coach Block with Court, Gatepiers and Railings, Category B19 and 21 West Port, Category B31 and 33 West Port, Category B33 Market Place, Category B38 and 39 Market Place and Halliwell's Close, Category B4 Viewfield Lane, Elm Park Lodge with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Court, Category B40-44 (Even Nos) High Street, Category B50 and 52 High Street, Category B6 Market Place, Bank of Scotland, With Railings, Category B6, 8 and 10 Viewfield Lane, Elm Park, Category B7 Market Place, Fleece Hotel, Category B9, 10 and 11 Thornfield Avenue, Thornfield House, Category BDunsdale Road, Ettrick Mill, Category AEttrick Terrace, War Memorial, Category AMarket Place, Town House, Old Sheriff Court and Boundary Walls, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monumentPark or garden

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118 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A32 Category B83 Category C

Historic Environment Scotland lists buildings in three categories: Category A for buildings of national or international importance (about 7.5% of listed buildings), Category B for buildings of regional importance (about 50%), and Category C for buildings of local importance (about 43%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s designations whose point lies inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Category A

The 3 Category A listed buildings in Selkirk

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 32 Category B listed buildings in Selkirk

Buildings of regional importance. 22 are photographed.

Show the other 20
Historic streets

High Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

High Street16 listed · 1 II*
50 and 52 High Street
Market Place10 listed · 1 II*
33 Market Place
West Port7 listed · 2 II*
19 and 21 West Port31 and 33 West Port

Of the 118 entries, 66 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Selkirk’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas85
Walls, gates & bridges21
Public & civic buildings4
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Memorials, crosses & tombs3
Street furniture1

85 entries (72%) are houses, terraces and villas.

Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Category C

83 Category C listed buildings

This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 83 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Back Row, Former Masonic HallCraig Brown Avenue, ReservoirEttrick Road, Forest Lodge with Boundary WallHallidays Park, Old Manse with Boundary WallsHigh School Lane, Old High School with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and OutbuildingsMavis Bank, Beech Villa and BelmontOld Bridge Road, Bridge ParkScott's Place, North Side, Wall Letter Box, Opposite Bowling ClubScotts Place, Plaque to J B Selkirk (James Brown)Scotts Place, Selkirk Congregational Church with Boundary Walls, Railings and GatepiersShawpark Road, Hillcrest, Former Rectory and Boundary WallsStation Road, Station Hotel and GatepiersStation Road, Waterworks and Mill Lade BridgeViewfield (Andrew Lang Unit), With Gatepiers and Boundary WallsViewfield Lodge with Gatepiers and Railings1 - 14 (Even Nos) Heatherlie Terrace1 High Street1 Thornfield Avenue, Former Lodge with Former Stable and Coach House, Outbuildings and Gatepiers1-7 (Odd Nos) West Port100, 102 and 104 Ettrick Terrace Including Railings and Boundary Walls103 High Street, Presbytery105 High Street, Church of Our Lady and St Joseph (Roman Catholic) and Boundary Walls106 Ettrick Terrace Including Outbuildings and Wall Letter Box108 and 110 Ettrick Terrace109 High Street11 and 12 Market Place12 Ettrick Terrace12-18 (Even Nos) West Port13 High Street13 Market Place14 Market Place15 Scotts Place, With Outbuilding and Timber Shed15 and 17 High Street16 and 18 High Street19 Heatherlie Park with Gate, Gatepiers, Boundary Walls and Outbuildings2 and 4 Kirk Wynd2 and 4 Market Place2 and 4 West Port20 Market Place21 Tower Street21-24 (Inclusive Nos) Market Place22-26 (Even Nos) West Port23, 25 and 27 High Street23-29 (Odd Nos) West Port28 Hillside Terrace, Rosemount and Boundary Walls28 and 30 High Street29 and 31 High Street3 and 5 Heatherlie Park, Woodburn House Hotel and Gatepiers3 and Market Place3-11 (Odd Nos) High Street, The County Hotel32 High Street32 Hillside Terrace with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers34 and 35 Market Place and Buildings in Close to Rear35 Back Row (former Volunteer Hall), Selkirk35 West Port35-39 (Odd Nos) High Street36 and 37 Market Place37 West Port38 High Street39 West Port4 High Street40 Ettrick Terrace with Boundary Walls and Railings40, 41 and 42 Market Place41 West Port with Boundary Walls41-49 (Odd Nos) High Street47 and 48 Market Place49 and 50 Market Place51 and 53 High Street54 and 56 High Street55-59 (Odd Nos) High Street6 High Street6 Russell Place, The Floors with Boundary Wall, Railings and Gatepiers6-10 (Even Nos) West Port62-70 (Even Nos) High Street66-74 (Even Nos) Mill Street69 Tower Street with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Railings69 and 71 High Street73-99 (Odd Nos) High Street8, 10 and 12 Shawpark Road, Dandswall with Lamp Standard, Boundary Wall and Gatepiers8-10 (Inclusive Nos) Market Place and 4 Ettrick Terrace9 Scotts Place9 and 11 West Port94 (Part) - 110 (Even Nos) Forest Road, And 52 and 54 (Part) Mill Street
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 5.4% of Selkirk

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Selkirk 197017 ha
17 hain conservation areas, of 308 ha inside the locality.

85 of the 118 listed buildings stand in one.

Historic Environment Scotland’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the locality.

How the list grew

More than half of Selkirk’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1996

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1996 · 981971 · 10
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 10 entries were listed in 1971, 3 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. 98 came in 1996. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from Historic Environment Scotland.

Philiphaugh, settlement and burial ground 150m S of Calton CottageEcclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships

1 garden or designed landscape

The HainingGarden and designed landscape

1 Inventory battlefield

Towns its size

Selkirk has the 25th most Category A buildings of 221 towns its size

Scottish towns of 2,000–12,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
Montrose11
Banff11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Jedburgh8
Rothesay7
Dunbar7
Brechin6
South Queensferry6
North Berwick6
Selkirk3
#12 of 221for listed buildings per resident (253 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

24 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Selkirk

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Selkirk4,6691183—
Galashiels10,071934—
Langlee3,53020—
Burnfoot2,79700—
Hawick10,7151243—
Innerleithen3,152260—
In brief

Selkirk in brief

The official list counts 118 listed buildings in Selkirk, 3 of them in the top category, including Dunsdale Road, Ettrick Mill. Only 24 of the 221 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. High Street alone has 16 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Most entries on the list, 72%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1996, when 98 of the 118 went on the list. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Selkirk’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Selkirk?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 118 buildings inside Selkirk’s locality: 3 Category A, 32 Category B and 83 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Selkirk?

3, including Dunsdale Road, Ettrick Mill, Ettrick Terrace, War Memorial and Market Place, Town House, Old Sheriff Court and Boundary Walls.

Which street in Selkirk has the most listed buildings?

High Street (16), Market Place (10) and West Port (7) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Selkirk?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Philiphaugh, settlement and burial ground 150m S of Calton Cottage.

How many conservation areas are there in Selkirk?

1, covering about 17 hectares of the town. The largest is Selkirk.

When were Selkirk’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 98, in 1996.

Selkirk has no History Grade.

Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites: Historic Environment Scotland, Open Government Licence v3.0. Check an entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s portal before relying on it.

Sources: Historic Environment Scotland designations (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary · Historic Environment Scotland conservation areas (compiled from councils; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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