Gatepiers And Boundary Walls, Taynuilt Including Garage, Tweedside Road, Newton St Boswells

Early 19th century. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, square-plan classical house with round arched window to gabled attic, prominently located on high ground to the E of Newtwon St Boswells and former stable block to S with round-arched brick openings. Coursed red sandstone rubble with smooth buff ashlar dressings; raised stone cills; in-and-out quoins; moulded cornice.

S (Garden) ELEVATION: moulded stone doorpiece with scrolled brackets supporting lintel canopy. Corniced windows flanking. Shoulded pediment gable with round-arched attic window to centre, small chimney stack to apex.

Single-storey, half-piended, outshot to N (road) elevation; central stair window above, flaked by blind window openings with tall wallhead stacks above.

12-pane glazing to timber sash and case windows. Piended roof, grey slate. Tall, coped wallhead stacks with ashlar quoins; predominantly square clay cans.

GARAGE BLOCK (FORMER STABLE): single-storey, piend-roofed former stable (converted to garage). Buff brick (now harled) with red brick margins. Round-arched door flanked by round-arched windows to side elevation. 2-leaf, timber vehicle doors fronting road; further timber door to rear. Fixed timber-framed windows. Grey slate.

GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: circular-plan, squared and snecked rubble gate piers with conical caps. High rubble walls with rounded coping stones.