Woodburn House, 3-5 Heatherlie Park, Selkirk

Woodburn House is a large, asymmetrical Baronial-style house dated 1869, with significant additions and alterations made in 1873, 1878, and more recently. It is two storeys high with a modern single-storey addition projecting to the south. The exterior is mainly painted harl (roughcast render) with painted droved ashlar (smoothly dressed stone) dressings, except on the outer left side of the east elevation, where the stonework is stugged (roughly textured) ashlar with droved ashlar dressings, and a harled band course running between the floor and dormerheads. A base course is present on the canted outer bay of the east elevation, and there are quoin strips outlining the corners.

The east elevation has three bays grouped as 1-2. The original two-bay section (dated 1869) features an advanced, gabled bay to the left with a canted window on the ground floor and a window above. A window is present on each floor of the bay to the right, with a dormerhead breaking the eaves at the first floor. A tower stands in the re-entrant angle, containing a panelled door at ground level, a plate glass letterbox fanlight flanked by narrow lights, a datestone, and a monogram on the lintel, with a window above on the first floor. A later canted bay (circa 1878) extends to the outer left, with a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window above, again breaking the eaves. A modern, single-storey prefabricated addition is situated to the far outer left.

The south elevation is six bays wide, grouped as 3-1-2. A single bay to the inner right displays windows on each floor, dating from 1873. A non-aligned window is found on each floor of the bay to the left of a two-bay group. A single-storey addition projects outwards on the right. A bipartite window at ground level is centred within a three-bay group (circa 1878), with a window above. A gabled bay on higher ground has a bipartite window flanked to the right by a single window, and another window in the gablehead. An advanced bay to the right of the three-bay group features a timber-mullioned quadripartite window on the first floor, covered by a cat-slide roof.

On the north elevation, each bay is gabled, with an 'M 'gable to the two bays on the outer right. A bay centrally placed is set back, containing a border-glazed window on the first floor. A two-bay group (circa 1878) is positioned to the right on rising ground, including a piended-advanced bay with a date stone to the gablehead. An inner left bay features a window on each floor, slightly advanced from the line of the outer left bay, with a round arch above and a date stone as a keystone. Windows are also present on each floor of the bay to the outer left.

The windows are generally timber sash and case with four panes and plate glass. The roof is slate, with a candlesnuffer roof over the tower’s re-entrant angle on the east elevation. Exposed roof rafters are visible at the eaves. Timber finials adorn most dormerheads and gableheads, while a cast-iron finial tops the tower. Ashlar coped stacks are also present.

Inside, a later (1878) dining room boasts timber carved chimneypieces and compartmentalised plasterwork. The original dining room contains a white marble chimneypiece. Timber-panelled dies form the stair banister, and encaustic tiles are laid in the vestibule.

Bull-faced granite gatepiers with square-plan, pyramidal tops mark the end of the driveway to the north.