British Linen Bank, High Street, Jedburgh

This is an earlier 19th century villa, substantially extended and altered to become a bank and bank house. The original building is a two-storey and basement, three-bay structure built on a sloping site. In the mid-19th century, a single-storey, four-bay addition was built to the south, converting the building into a bank and bank house, with further extensions to the rear in the late 20th century. The front elevation is of coursed rubble, stripped of render, while the sides and rear are harl-pointed. The dressings and a later extension are of cream-coloured, hammer-dressed ashlar.

The east (entrance) elevation displays the original three-bay villa with widely spaced bays and painted long and short dressings, an eaves course, and a cornice. The central bay is slightly advanced, featuring three steps of ashlar leading to an ashlar doorcase with a pair of heavy Tuscan columns and a large entablature. A nine-panelled door is set within this doorcase, topped by a rectangular fanlight, and a bipartite window sits above. Single windows are present on the ground floor of the flanking bays, with piend-roofed dormers projecting from the roof. A base course is present, and the eaves are moulded. To the south, a recessed four-bay banking hall features a door and matching doorcase on the far left, and three single windows to the right. Steps leading to the middle window of the banking hall extend beyond the building and incorporate a cash machine. Railings enclose the basement area to the right bay.

The south elevation includes a two-bay addition to the left with a single window and the original villa’s bay to the right, containing two basement windows, a band course above, a single window to the ground floor, and a single window to the first floor, the upper one now blocked.

The west (rear) elevation features the original three-bay villa with a raised basement. Centrally, a door leads to the basement, accompanied by a stair window above, primarily at the second floor (with traces of a blocked ground floor window). Windows are present on all floors of the flanking bays, along with small box dormers. A small closet window has been inserted to the left of the right bay at ground floor level. To the right, a projecting, flat-roofed, pebble-dashed extension has two square windows, and a single window to the return wall.

The north elevation has three bays with a raised basement and a band course above. Single windows appear on all floors of the left bay; a basement window and a narrow window are in the centre bay’s ground floor; and a single window appears on the ground floor of the right bay, with a window above blocked.

The original villa has timber sash and case windows with plate glass to the front and sides (four panes to the dormers), while the rear has multi-pane windows. The addition has six-pane upper sashes and plate glass below.

The roofs are piended and covered in grey slates. The villa retains original coped ashlar stacks with octagonal cans.

The interior is described as very plain and much altered.

A curved, stepped rubble boundary wall with saddleback ashlar coping and decorative cast-iron railings originally surrounded the property. It has been recently restored with modern paired square ashlar gatepiers.