Stoneyhill Lodge, Galashiels Road, Walkerburn

Stoneyhill Lodge, built in 1868 by F.T. Pilkington, is one of a pair of symmetrical entrance lodges designed in an idiosyncratic Ruskinian/early Gothic style. It is a single-storey building with a distinctive lozenge plan, featuring apsed ends and a triple-gabled entrance porch. The building is notable for its polychromatic appearance, achieved through the use of squared and textured whinstone rubble construction, contrasted with polished ashlar dressings. The ashlar includes tabbed quoins to the windows, an ashlar cill, and moulded wallhead band courses. Decorative details include sunk diamond panels with botanical motifs. The roof is pitched and bowed, with bracketed eaves and decorative foliate ball and spike finials.

The west-facing drive and entrance elevation features a central triangular, gabletted porch. To the left of the porch is a canted section with a round-arched surround containing a pair of timber boarded entrance doors. The surround has chamfered arrises and an advance sloped base course, culminating in a gablehead with feather-edged skews, a floriate putt, and a fleur-de-lis finial. A similarly styled, blind gable stands to the center. To the right is another canted gable, topped with an ogee arch-headed window set within an ashlar surround. The sides of the lodge, flanking the entrance, are blind, each featuring a central sunken diamond panel with a spikey botanical motif. A square ashlar gatepier, with a sloping base and chamfered angles, supports stylised floriate caps.

The south-facing road elevation features the main bowed end of the lodge with paired bipartite windows. A blind original wall is centrally placed, featuring three inset quatrefoil stones and plain wallhead coping. A later extension is concealed behind a boundary wall to the right.

The east-facing rear elevation is now largely concealed by a single-storey, flat-roofed, harled extension containing regularly placed sash and case windows and a rear entrance door.

The north-facing elevation mirrors the south, with the main bowed end incorporating paired bipartite windows, a blind original wall with three inset quatrefoil stones, and a modern extension to the left.

The windows are fitted with plate-glass glazing in timber frames, with an ogee arch-headed plate-glass window in the porch. The pitched slated roof extends to the bowed ends and the triple-gabled porch. Lead ridging, flashings, and valleys are present. The roofline is finished with lead foliate ball and spike finals. A moulded cornice conceals painted cast-iron gutters, while downpipes are concealed in the angle of the porch. Tall ashlar stacks are positioned centrally on the roofline, featuring swept bases, projecting floriate neck copes, and hexagonal cans.

The interior retains original timberwork, including working sets of panelled shutters and 2-leaf timber boarded entrance and internal doors.

A tall squared whinstone rubble boundary wall extends eastward along Galashiels Road.