George Meikle Kemp Memorial, Redscarhead

The George Meikle Kemp Memorial, designed by James Grieve in 1932, is a single-storey Gothic memorial attached to the rear extension of an earlier building. It features a bronze memorial to George Meikle Kemp set within a 3-light arched window. The structure is built from coursed whinstone with a polished ashlar base course, buttressed angles, and plain copes, which originally included saddle-backed crow-steps. The memorial includes a concrete arched Gothic light.

On the principal elevation, the gable end displays remnants of angle buttresses and plain skews that have replaced the earlier crow-steps. The central feature is a pointed-arch blind window with intersecting bar tracery, framed by an arched ashlar surround with heavy stone mullions and transoms. Within the central light is a bronze memorial tablet, which includes a miniature of the Scott Monument to the upper left and a bust of Meikle Kemp, with an inscription beneath reading "GEORGE MIEKLE KEMP, CARPENTER AND ARCHITECT, born 1795 - died 1844".

To the left of the central light, there is a panel inscribed "THIS MEMORIAL TO GEORGE MIEKLE KEMP WAS SUBSCRIBED BY THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF PEEBLES AND OTHERS ON THE FIRST CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT BARONET OF ABBOTSFORD 21st SEPTEMBER 1932". The right light features a panel inscribed with the names "SIR MICHAEL G THORBURN LORD LIEUTENANT, GEORGE ANDERSON PROVOST OF PEEBLES, ROBERT MATHIESON PROVOST OF INNERLEITHEN, JAMES GRIEVE FSA SCOT, COMMITTEE".

The lower lights contain quatrefoils, each displaying a coloured shield: the Peebles coat of arms on the left, a saltire in the centre, and a fishing emblem on the right. The name "GEORGE MEIKLE KEMP" is carved into the drip sill. At the gablehead, there is an inset carved thistle stone with a moulded surround, but the original carved stone finial is missing, leaving a plain gable head with plain skews in place of the former crow-steps.