43 High Street, Peebles

Date 1897. 3-storey 4-bay tenement on corner site with 2 shops at ground, corner turret and Scottish 17th century detailing.

N ELEVATION: squared snecked and stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. Moulded architraves; cill course at 2nd floor; swept corners; turret to E corbelled out at 1st floor and again at 2nd, with 3 windows to each floor, cornice and conical roof with wrought-iron weathervane finial; W corner corbelled to square at 2nd floor. Original 3-bay (and glazed corner) delicate timber shopfronts

with set-back central glazed doors; plate glass windows, panelled aprons; pilaster divides shops; plain fascia and cornice.

1st floor windows corniced, that at centre pedimented. 2nd floor

windows breaking eaves with gabled dormerheads; that at centre

pedimented with final; flanking gableheads with dated and

monogrammed MB shields.

E ELEVATION: white painted render with black painted ashlar margins (as adjoining Tontine Hotel). Gable to right with apex stack; 2 irregular bays to left; bipartite window at ground, single windows above. Balustraded parapet with ball finials.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Grey-green slates; ashlar-coped skews; coped ashlar dressed stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.