Old Schoolhouse, Tweed Green, Peebles

The Old Schoolhouse in Tweed Green, Peebles, dates back to 1766 and was raised by one storey and altered in 1878, with further modifications since then. This symmetrical former school building is two storeys high with an attic and features five bays. It is constructed of whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings and has harled sides and rear, along with quoin strips and chamfered arrises.

On the south elevation, there is an advanced gabled bay at the center, which includes a later doorway flanked by closet windows. The doorway is deep-set with a boarded door and a three-pane flanlight above it. A hoodmould steps over a framed panel, and there is a flattened pointed-arch window on the first floor, which is now bipartite, along with a framed panel in the gablehead that displays three fish, representing the town crest, topped with a finial. The flanking bays have narrow windows on both floors, while the outer bays feature windows on both floors and canted piend-roofed timber dormers.

The west elevation is gabled, with windows on both floors displaced to the left and an apex stack. The east elevation is also gabled, with windows on all floors displaced to the right and an apex stack.

The building has multi-pane timber sash and case windows, with some plate glass and replacements. The roof is covered with purple-grey slates and features ashlar coped skews, gablet skewputts, and coped ashlar dressed harled stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1994.

To the immediate west, there is a gate and boundary wall featuring an ashlar doorpiece with a shouldered open doorway and roll-moulded arrises. It includes an open timber gate and a cornice with a parapet that has a gabled central panel. The boundary wall is made of whinstone with saddleback ashlar coping.