Lodge, Tweedvale House, Galashiels Road, Walkerburn

This is a lodge, built in 1868 for Tweedvale House by F T Pilkington. It is a single-storey building of three bays with an asymmetric Gothic design, featuring a canted east end and an advanced bay window to the southwest; a later single-storey extension was added to the west. The lodge is constructed of coursed local whinstone with cream polished ashlar dressings and quoins. The whinstone features tooled rybats with margin drafts, and the window reveals are a mix of chamfered and splayed, with drip sills. A swept base course runs around the building, and it has deep timber-bracketed eaves and a moulded eaves course.

The south (principal) elevation features a slightly projecting sub-Serlian entrance arcade in the central bay. This arcade is composed of squared outer pilasters with floriate capitals, a high plinthed base adjoining outer pilasters to a pair of dwarf inner columns with foliage-detailed capitals, all supporting shaped lintels. Above this is a high chamfered stilted arch with floriate stops, rising into a crowstepped gable with skewed foliate putts; a plain inscription panel is centrally positioned. An open portico with fitted timber bench seating leads to a timber barrelled inner wall with dog-tooth cornicing and a stone flagged floor, which in turn leads to a two-leaf outer door with leaded glass side lights. To the right of the entrance, a single window is present, alongside a further window within the canted corner. To the left, a canted bay window features a bipartite light in the centre, and is topped by a decorative pellet and spike finial surmounting a piended roof; the canted corner of the original elevation rises to bracketed eaves. To the extreme left is a later recessed single-storey, stone-fronted addition with a central bipartite window.

The west elevation shows a squared, blind end of the later 20th-century extension, concealing the original elevation. The north (rear) elevation was not visible during inspection in 2002. The east elevation shows a canted corner window shared with the south elevation, and beyond that, an ornate stepped buttress with a central arched Gothic window, rising into an octagonal stack with chamfered corners to a swept base.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glazing and leaded sidelights flanking the entrance door. An arched Gothic stained glass window is centrally positioned on the east elevation. The roof is pitched grey slate with a canted piend end and bay, with timber bracketed eaves, lead ridging, flashing and valleys, and a flat-roofed extension. The rainwater goods are painted cast-iron, with partially concealed gutters. Tall hexagonal ashlar stacks rise from stepped, chamfered gable buttresses, each with a hexagonal neck cope and a single plain can.

The interior retains original timberwork including a press, cupboards, working shutters, some panelled doors, and timber benches to the porch. A room on the east side contains a Gothic window above a stone open fireplace, alongside plain cornicing. A separate laundry to the rear contains a Belfast sink.