Walkerburn Parish Church Manse, Galashiels Road, Walkerburn

Walkerburn Parish Church Manse, built around 1875 and likely designed by Robert Mathison, is a two-storey and attic, three-bay former manse situated on a terraced hillside. The building is rectangular in plan, with a projecting gable and canted bay windows. It is constructed of coursed sandstone ashlar, featuring vermiculated quoins, a polished ashlar base, and band courses. Polished ashlar window surrounds have chamfered arrises and lintels, with sandstone ashlar mullions. The roof is skew gabled and features moulded putts.

The south elevation, the principal facade, is accessed by a flight of ashlar steps flanked by low piers. The central entrance features a projecting door surround with chamfered arrises, a timber panelled door with a rectangular glazed fanlight, a projecting cornice, and a lintel. To the right is a slightly advanced rectangular bay window. An advanced gable to the left incorporates a two-storey canted bay window with bipartite windows and canted sidelights on both the ground and first floors. Bipartite windows are also found to the centre and right of the first floor. Above, paired arched windows are set into the gablehead, with overhanging skews forming a gablehead cornice and terminating in an ashlar ball and spike finial. A pitched-roof timber gabled dormer with slated cheeks is also present.

The west elevation is largely blind and harled, with a single window at ground and first floor levels, and a gablehead stack. The north (rear) elevation has regular fenestration with a single-storey, harled outhouse extension to the right. The east elevation mirrors the west.

Upper floor windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, while the principal ground floor rooms have four-pane glazing within timber sash and case windows. A small arched bipartite window with two-pane glazing is found in the attic. The roof is covered in purple slate with lead ridging and flashing. Painted cast-iron rainwater pipes are present. Gablehead stacks constructed of coursed sandstone ashlar are located on the east and west elevations, each with projecting moulded neck copes and four or five cans.

The interior retains the original room layout, with large reception rooms on the ground floor and a timber dog leg staircase. Features such as panelled doors, skirting boards, and some original fire surrounds remain.