4 Elm Row, Lasswade

This is a late 19th-century, two-storey building, originally designed as council offices, situated on a sloping ground falling to the southwest. The building follows an L-shaped plan and is symmetrical in its design. It is constructed from bull-faced red sandstone, with contrasting polished ashlar dressings around the windows and decorative features. The rear is harled, while the front features decorative tails to the windows, dormers, and a curvilinear wallhead gable with scrolled terminals. Windows have chamfered reveals, with stone mullions to the ground floor. Quoins define the corners, and the eaves and a horizontal string course are elaborately moulded.

The principal (southeast) elevation has a raised Gibbsian doorpiece in the centre bay, featuring a blank panel with scrolls and a cornice above. The double doors are timber-panelled, and an oeil-de-boeuf (round) window sits to the right of the entrance. A bipartite window is located on the first floor. A tall stack rises through the gablehead above. Relieving arches are present above the tripartite ground floor windows, and gabled dormer windows are positioned above the first floor.

The rear (northwest) elevation is irregular, incorporating a three-storey section to the right of the centre and a further advanced three-storey section to the right. A boarded door is situated in the centre bay, flanked by a window. An incorrectly aligned window is above, and smaller windows are found on both the first and ground floors. The three-storey bay features a window on each floor, while the advanced bay has a window on each of the ground and first floors, and a tripartite window on the second floor.

The southwest (side) elevation showcases an advanced porch in the centre bay, with an architraved doorpiece and a blocking course above. Timber-panelled double doors lead inside, flanked by a window. A stair window is positioned above. A coped ashlar wallhead stack, incorporating quoins and a crow-stepped half-gable to the left, rises above. A window is found on the first floor to the right, with a round-headed half-gable above. A basement window is located in the bay to the left.

The northeast (side) elevation is simple, featuring a single window to the main storey. A wallhead stack is recessed to the right of the gablehead.

The principal (southeast) elevation incorporates small-pane timber sash and case windows. Various other timber sash and case windows are present throughout the building, including 12-pane and plate glass varieties. The roof is covered with piended grey slate, featuring a terracotta ridge and ball finials. Quoined ashlar coped skews and a quoined ashlar coped wallhead stack extend from the northeast corner. Cast-iron rainwater goods with gutters run across the principal dormers. Boundary walls are constructed from coped and stepped ashlar sandstone with wrought-iron railings.