Country Council Offices, Southfield Lodge, Station Road, Duns

Early 19th century, enlarged in mid 19th century. Large 2-storey

3-bay U-plan classical villa. Stugged and coursed cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Principal (E and S) elevations with base course, corner pilasters, cornice and blocking course; raised margins; cornices to ground floor windows.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: centre bay slightly advanced; Tuscan Doric portico at ground with paired columns to front and engaged columns to return; 2-leaf panelled door with Edinburgh handle and 2-pane fanlight; glazed inner door and screen. Paired window to 1st floor; parapet with horizontal consoles flanking central tablet. Later canted window with cornice and blocking course to flanking bays at ground; single window above.

S ELEVATION: 5-bay; windows to both floors of each bay. 3 right bays symmetrical with flanking pilasters and advanced centre bay; 2 left bays with projecting stack at centre. Corner pilaster to left corbelled out at ground floor to allow for wall and timber lean-to shed.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: rubble; Venetian stair window at centre. Projecting outer wings; that to right blank, that to left with window to both floors; windows to both returns.

N ELEVATION: irregularly secondary elevation with paired windows at ground and 2 windows at 1st floor; wallhead stack to left.

12-pane timber sash and case windows; 4-pane to canted windows; some plate glass sashes. Piended roof; grey slates; shouldered and corniced ashlar stacks, 1 reduced and rebuilt with brick.

INTERIOR: grey marble and black slate fireplaces survive at ground, together with some plasterwork. Wall removed between S rooms.

Much altered late 19th century single storey and attic 3-bay sandstone cottage at very close proximity to right. Pitched roof, grey slates; apex stacks. Flat-roofed timber addition.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATE: sandstone boundary wall with saddleback coping to road; flat and semi-circular coping to sides and rear. Curves into stocky square stop-chamfered gatepiers to front (gates missing). Pedestrian gateway with cast-iron arrowhead gate.