Back Row, Former Masonic Hall Selkirk, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Back Row, Former Masonic Hall has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 390344 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 43742
- Canmore ID
- 231548
- Category
- C
- Name
- Back Row, Former Masonic Hall
- Parish
- Selkirk
- County
- Scottish Borders
- Easting
- 347186
- Northing
- 628554
- Date Listed
- 11 December 1996
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Later 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 5-bay hall and offices. Bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course, eaves course. W (BACK ROW) ELEVATION: windows at ground, in bay to centre and to penultimate right, and breaking eaves at 1st floor, in gabled dormerheads. 2-leaf deep-set panelled door in bay to penultimate left with cornice and square plaque (uncarved) above; small window at 1st floor with segmental pediment above. 2 round gunloops at ground in bay to outer left set in trefoil margins; corbelled tower rising from 1st floor, canted below eaves level and breaking eaves with small window to left at 1st floor and to centre at eaves height. Shoulder-arched pend-opening at ground of bay to outer right with 2-leaf boarded gate; bipartite window at 1st floor above, breaking eaves and with crowstepped gable to dormerhead above. E ELEVATION: not seen, 1995. 12-pane timber sash and case windows, except modern glazing at ground. Slate roof with half-piended roof to outer right of W elevation. Crowstepped gable to N with whinstone and ashlar coped wallhead stack. INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The Masonic lodge was formerly at Nos 3 and 5 Market Place (see separate listing). This building appears to have been converted for domestic use, 1995.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Appears on 3rd edition OS map (1897). B Holton THE RING O THE TOUN - A WALK AROUND SELKIRK (1984), p17.
