Stoneyhill Lodge, Galashiels Road, Walkerburn

FT Pilkington, 1868. One of an identical pair of single storey, symmetrical lozenge-plan, idiosyncratic Ruskinian / early Gothic style entrance lodges with apsed ends and triple gabled entrance porches. Polychromatic appearance due to squared and textured whinstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings (tabbed quoins to window) and sculptured details. Ashlar cill and moulded wallhead band courses; sunk diamond panels with botanical motifs. Pitched and bowed roof with bracketed eaves and foliate ball and spike finials.

W (DRIVE / ENTRANCE) ELEVATION AND GATEPIER: central triangular gabletted porch: to left cant, round-arched surround (with chamfered arrises and advance sloped base course) containing 2-leaf timber boarded entrance door and stylised floriate keystone, roll-moulded and chamfered outer arrises leading to gablehead with feather-edged skews terminating in floriate putts and stylised fleur-de-lis finial. Similarly styled, blind narrow gable to centre with gatepier attached: square ashlar gatepier with advanced sloping base, squared shaft with chamfered upper angles and corbels supporting the stylised floriate caps. Right canted gable again similarly styled with ogee arch-headed window within ashlar surround with sloped drip cill. Blind sides of lodge flanking entrance with central sunken diamond panel with spikey botanical motif touching sill and moulded eaves course.

S (ROAD) ELEVATION: to left, main bowed-end of lodge with paired bipartite windows; to centre, blind original wall with 3 inset quatrefoil stones beneath plain wallhead coping; to right, boundary wall with later extension concealed behind.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: original elevation now concealed behind single storey, flat-roofed harled extension with regularly placed sash and case windows and rear entrance door.

N ELEVATION: to right, main bowed end of lodge with paired bipartite windows; to centre, blind original wall with 3 inset quatrefoil stones beneath plain wallhead coping; modern extension to left (see E ELEVATION).

Plate-glass glazing in timber frames; ogee arch-headed plate-glass window to road elevation of porch. Pitched slated main roof with slated bowed ends and canted triple gabled porch; lead ridging, flashings and valleys; lead foliate ball and spike finals to ends of roofline and to rear apex of gabletted porch. Moulded cornice concealing painted cast-iron gutters, downpipes concealed in angle of porch. Paired tall ashlar stacks to centre of roofline with swept bases, projecting stylised floriate neck copes and hexagonal cans.

INTERIOR: original timber work surviving including working sets of panelled shutters; 2-leaf timber boarded entrance doors, internal doors.

BOUNDARY W ALL: tall squared whinstone rubble boundary wall extending E along Galashiels Road.