Jedburgh Grammar School 1880s block, High Street, Jedburgh

A single and two-storey grammar school, built in 1882-84 to the designs of Henry Hardy and John Rutherford Wight in a Neo-Jacobean style with Gothic details. The building is largely rectangular in plan with a number of projections, including a square-plan bell-tower, positioned off-centre over the entrance door. The walls are constructed of squared, snecked and stugged cream ashlar sandstone with smooth ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises, basecourse and a first floor cill course.

The front (east) elevation is five-bays with the two single-storey right bays advanced. The far left bay of the ground floor has a stepped three-light lancet window with carved stone quatrefoil rosettes in the window heads. The advanced block to the far right comprises a buttressed three-stage bell-tower entrance bay and a double height hall to the left of the tower, with a stepped three-light lancet window breaking the eaves. The bell-tower has an open timber bellcote with decorative timberwork, a pyramidal fishscaled roof and a wrought iron finial.

The south elevation is two storeys, six bays, with a gablet breaking through the eaves in the central bay and a tripartite window at the ground floor. A flat-roof parapetted porch abuts much of the ground floor.

The rear elevation is two storeys with bipartite ground floor windows and single windows in the upper floor. The first floor of the left side is a post war pebble-dashed addition with raised window margins.

The north elevation contains three bays of the single-storey hall block to the left, having bipartite windows in the gabled dormerheads. The right bay is advanced, with a spiral cast iron external stair to the re-entrant angle, accessing the pebble-dashed post-war extension at the first floor.

The windows are largely square-headed, with some bipartite and tripartite lancets and segmental-headed openings with stone mullions. There are gabletted dormers breaking the wallhead. Generally the windows are late-19th century multi-paned timber windows, predominantly sliding sashes but with some fixed lights and casements. There are some replacement timber windows, inserted around 2000. The slated roofs are piended with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, ashlar skews and octagonal timber ventilators.

There are chamfered ashlar gate piers with pointed caps to the entrance on Queen Street (to the east of the school), which are flanked by low stugged ashlar walls with saddleback coping and decorative wrought iron railings.

The interior was seen in 2017. The visible fabric is largely late 20th century replacement with suspended ceilings throughout.

In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: conservatory to southeast, rear extension and all other separate blocks (Thomson, Rutherford and Social Dining blocks, Sports Centre and technical department).