Country Council Offices, Southfield Lodge, Station Road, Duns

This is an early 19th century country villa, which was enlarged in the mid-19th century. It is a large, two-storey building arranged in a U-shaped plan, designed in a classical style. The villa is constructed of stugged and coursed cream sandstone ashlar, with polished dressings. It features a base course, corner pilasters, a cornice, a blocking course, raised margins, and cornices to the ground floor windows.

The east (front) elevation has a slightly advanced central bay, incorporating a Tuscan Doric portico at ground level with paired columns to the front and engaged columns to the sides. The entrance has a two-leaf panelled door with an Edinburgh handle and a two-pane fanlight, along with a glazed inner door and screen. Above, there is a paired window, and the parapet is adorned with horizontal consoles flanking a central tablet. Later additions include canted windows with cornices and blocking courses to the flanking bays at ground level, each with a single window above.

The south elevation is five bays wide, with windows to both floors in each bay. The three right bays are symmetrical, featuring flanking pilasters and an advanced central bay. The two left bays have a projecting stack at the centre. A corner pilaster on the left corbelled out at ground floor level to accommodate a wall and timber lean-to shed.

The west (rear) elevation is of rubble construction and has a Venetian stair window at the centre. Projecting outer wings are present; the one on the right is blank, while the one on the left includes windows to both floors, as do the returns.

The north elevation is a secondary elevation, with paired windows at ground level and two windows at first floor level, with a wallhead stack to the left.

The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes, and 4 panes to the canted windows, with some plate glass sashes. The roof is piended and covered in grey slates, and the chimney stacks are of shouldered and corniced ashlar, with one reduced and rebuilt in brick.

The interior retains grey marble and black slate fireplaces at ground floor level, alongside some plasterwork. A wall has been removed between the south rooms.

A much altered late 19th century, single-storey and attic, three-bay sandstone cottage is situated very close to the right side, featuring a pitched roof with grey slates and apex stacks, as well as a flat-roofed timber addition.

A sandstone boundary wall with saddleback coping runs along the road, curving into stocky, square, stop-chamfered gatepiers to the front (gates are missing). A pedestrian gateway has a cast-iron arrowhead gate.