Lochiel, Main Street East End, Chirnside

Lochiel is a former United Presbyterian manse located on Main Street in East End, Chirnside. It dates from the earlier to mid-19th century and features later additions and alterations. The building is a single storey with an attic and has a three-bay gabled Tudor design, with lower single-storey wings recessed to the left and right, and a single-storey wing at the rear, forming a near T-plan. The exterior is constructed of coursed and stugged red sandstone, with sandstone ashlar dressings that are lightly droved in parts, and harl-pointed red sandstone rubble at the rear. Notable architectural features include a raised base course, stugged quoins, stugged long and short surrounds to openings, sandstone mullions to bipartite windows, and flush cills.

On the south (entrance) elevation, the central entrance is slightly recessed and features a square-headed design with a timber panelled door and a Tudor-arched fanlight above. There is a blind, round-arched arrowslit centered in a small gablehead above the entrance. The flanking bays have canted windows at ground level with corniced eaves, and there are blind, square-headed arrowslits centered in large sandstone gableheads that break the eaves above. The bipartite windows are located in single bay projections that are recessed to the outer left and right.

The north (rear) elevation includes a gabled projection at the center, with single-storey ranges recessed to the outer left and right. The building has modern timber glazing throughout and rooflights. The roof is covered with grey slate and features gablet-coped skews and scroll-bracketed skewputts. Sandstone apex stacks with brick-built triple flues and octagonal cans are present, along with a plain apex stack to the north and a single circular can.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by heavily-pointed, coped rubble boundary walls. Corniced square-plan piers are located at the street front to the outer left and right, featuring chamfered angles and flat ashlar caps. Gatepiers, matching the piers, flank the central pedestrian entrance, which is fitted with a modern iron gate.