Gunsgreen House, Eyemouth

Gunsgreen House in Eyemouth is a Palladian villa designed by James Adam around 1753. The building features a five-bay, three-storey front with a basement on the west side. The basement is partially sunk and rendered with ashlar dressings. At the center of the ground floor, there is a round-arched entrance door approached by balustraded steps that bridge the area. The ground floor has v-jointed rusticated ashlar only on the front, with ashlar continuing to the cills of the first-floor windows. These windows have corniced architraves, with the center window featuring a pediment and balustraded aprons.

The first-floor windows are taller than those on the ground floor, while the second-floor windows are square with ashlar margins. The remainder of the front and the two-bay deep flanks are rendered with an ashlar band-course and a moulded eaves-course. The roof is piended, platformed, and slated, with flues grouped into two massive square central stacks.

An early 19th-century cast-iron area railing features a lattice pattern in quadrants from the steps to the corners of the west front. In front of the house, there is a curved battlemented retaining wall that encloses a terrace, likely from the early 19th century, made of rubble with a flagged cope and large pyramidal buttresses alternating with blind occuli.