Prestonkirk House, High Street, East Linton

Prestonkirk House, built in 1864 by Peddie and Kinnear, is a former poorhouse that features a two-storey, five-bay H-plan design with advanced outer bays. The building is constructed from squared and snecked whinstone, accented with ashlar dressings, and includes a plinth, a first-floor cill course, and an eaves course. The reveals are chamfered.

On the north elevation, there is a central door topped by a segmentally arched hoodmould with a keystone and a strip fanlight. The ground floor has segmentally arched windows in the flanking bays, while the wings feature bipartite windows with stone mullions. The first floor has windows in each bay, with bipartite windows in the wings.

The south (rear) elevation has a central projecting two-storey wing with irregular fenestration, similar in detail to the north elevation. There is a broad wallhead stack on the south side. Attached at right angles is a single-storey, piend-roofed laundry wing, which has a cupola to the right of centre and a rendered stack.

The east and west elevations each have a window in the outer bays at ground floor level, while the first-floor windows are grouped at the centre and detailed as previously described. There are harled projections at the centre of the ground floor.

The windows are sash and case style with an 8-lying pane glazing pattern. The piended roof is covered with grey slates and features finials and skylights at the rear, along with bracketed eaves. The corner stacks have a moulded base course and cornice.