Including Boundary Walls And Gate Piers, Galashiels, High Sunderland

This is a remarkable modernist house situated in Galashiels, built in 1957 by Peter Womersley, with a sympathetic addition made in 1982. The house is a single-storey, rectangular structure of 14 bays, set on a gently sloping site within a cleared woodland area. It incorporates a courtyard space and an open carport. The construction is timber-framed, using a Makore timber structure on an 8ft grid over a concrete raft. The exterior features a white horizontal base course band, a higher level band forming a clerestory, and a continuous white facia board at the eaves with aluminium trim. Facades are composed of asymmetrical coloured vitroslab panels, clear plate plyglass glazing, and vertically boarded Makore timber, distinguishing between living, bathroom and sleeping areas. The entrance screen originally featured five horizontal panels coloured, and has been embellished with a later surface tile mosaic created by Bernat Klein.

In 1982, a studio was added, with contemporary detailing partially infilling the former open courtyard and pond located in the eastern corner. The exterior features plain timber doors, single-glazed metal-framed sliding patio doors, double-glazed, timber-framed fixed lights incorporating horizontally coloured glass panels in yellow and green, and plain varnished timber vertically boarded sections. Internal rainwater drainage leads to soakaways.

The interior presents a fine, open plan modernist design with the original scheme retained, including bespoke fitted furniture and storage. Flooring is travertine and tiled, while the ceiling is of polished obeche wood. Original light fittings and contemporary furniture complete the interior design. Textiles were specially designed, dyed, and woven by Bernat Klein. The main living space has a sunken central floor area, floor-to-ceiling glazing, a double-sided grey marble central hearth, and fitted timber cabinets with integral lighting. African hardwood panels, including indigbo, rosewood and walnut, line the walls, with flush, hidden doors leading to bedroom suites. The main bedroom suite has flush cupboards; the 'bedhead' wall is built of horizontal strips of walnut. The kitchen retains its original cobalt blue tiled floor and simple timber units.

Drystone boundary walls and gateposts define the entrance drive. Low walls perpendicular to the building plan delineate the exterior spaces; a low retaining wall is present in the northeastern corner.