1 Preston Road, East Linton

This building, located at 1 Preston Road in East Linton, dates from around 1910 and is a two-storey L-plan villa. It features a lower gabled stair block in the re-entrant angle and a single-storey service block at the rear, forming a court. The exterior is made of squared and snecked rubble sandstone for the two-storey entrance porch and base course, with white painted harl and red ashlar dressings.

On the west elevation, there is an entrance to a two-storey canted porch projection that has a coped parapet. The stair block is to the left, with the main gable to the right. The doorway is lugged with bolection moulding and has a blank square panel above with a decorative surround. To the left of the porch, there is a bipartite window with stone mullions on each face at the first floor, and single irregular windows at both the ground and first floors in the gable end to the right. Additionally, there is a stair window to the left of the porch, a doorway with a semi-circular entrance to the service court, and decorative railings.

The south elevation is three bays wide, with a roof that sweeps down in a catslide over a glazed loggia at the center, which adjoins square projecting windows in the outer bays. These windows rise above the eaves of the catslide and feature piend roofed, tile-hung dormers.

The east elevation shows a gable end with windows to the right at both the ground and first floors. There is a recessed and lower two-bay wing to the left, with two windows at the ground and windows at the first floor that break the eaves in gabled dormerheads, which have roll-moulded ashlar surrounds and apex finials, one of which is missing. The north side has a crow-stepped gable end, while the rear features a piend roofed single-storey service wing.

The building retains period glazing, with multi-pane casement windows in the loggia and bays, and quasi-Venetian windows in the projecting bays at the ground level. Sash and case windows are present on the sides and rear, featuring a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with red tiles, and there are ashlar coped gable wallhead stacks, with the eastern stack intercepting skew to the left of the gablehead. The end stacks are harled with ashlar coping.