The Bridge Inn, West Port, Peebles

The Bridge Inn, located at West Port in Peebles, is a 2-storey gabled Arts and Crafts inn built in 1900. It is situated on a curved roadside site at the entrance to the bridge. The building features a rendered exterior with half-timbered gables and bracketed eaves. The ground level is adorned with red sandstone ashlar dressings, while a black painted brick base course rises to the window cills. The design includes overhanging eaves, exposed rafters, and decorative bargeboards.

On the principal street elevation, the center showcases a 5-light bowed timber window at the ground floor, which is bracketed to a square window at the first floor that features an arched center light and gable. To the right, there is a 2-leaf panelled door surrounded by a stop-roll-moulded surround and topped with a bracketed half-pitched canopy. Above this, a small dormer with a swept roof can be seen. On the south side, there is a tripartite window with ashlar mullions and margins at the ground floor, and a bipartite window breaking the eaves at the first floor with a piended dormerhead; this side also has a blank gabled return. The north side features a broad gable with a bracketed corbel course above the ground level, a canted tripartite window with an arched center in the gablehead, and a 2-leaf panelled door to the right with a broad roll-moulded upper surround, alongside a bipartite window to the left with ashlar mullion and margins. The north return has a similar gable and two mullion and transomed windows at the first floor.

The windows are a mix of timber sash and plate glass, as well as leaded casements. The roof is covered with grey-green slates and features decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials, along with decorative rainwater hoppers. The interior was not seen in 1994.