Netherby, 60 Abbotsford Road, Galashiels

James Campbell Walker, mid 19th century (before 1868). 2-storey with upper breaking eaves, irregular-plan, Jacobean house consisting of 5-bay principal block linked to 3-bay former stables by single-storey block. Squared buff sandstone with ashlar dressings. Prominently sited in a large sloping garden. Base course, stepped corbel-table at first floor level, eaves band course, balustraded parapet. Mullioned and transomed windows.

PRINCIPAL BLOCK: symmetrical. Advanced gabled central bay; entrance through Romanesque triple-arcade of red granite columns. Corbelled out oriel above. Balustraded canted 3-light windows to either side. Dormers with finialed concave pediments. Octagonal brick annexe of c1980 to outer right. Octagonal spired turret to N elevation.

STABLE BLOCK: symmetrical. Advanced central bay with stepped corbel-table. Central gable flanked by prominent decorative stacks.

Predominantly plate-glass and 4-pane sash and case windows. Purple slate roof. Corniced ridge and wall-head stacks.

INTERIOR: many fine interior features survive. Elaborate plasterwork, heavy Jacobean stair with decorative newels and bronze lights. Late 19th century stained glass stair window. Timber and cast iron fireplaces. Parquet flooring.

LODGE: c1930. Simple symmetrical 3-bay single-storey lodge with pyramidal slate roof and central chimney. Squared buff sandstone, square projecting window-bays.

WALLED GARDEN, BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS: rectangular walled garden to W of house with curved corners: rubble walls with timber panels between upright piers. Brick wall to NW with lean-to greenhouse (Mackenzie and Moncur). Brick sheds. Raised terrace to front of house, rubble steps to upper garden. Rubble boundary walls to sides and rear. Low wall to Abbotsford Road. Finialed square-plan ashlar gatepiers.