Stables, Dryburgh Abbey House

John Smith of Darnwick, circa 1820; moved and rebuilt circa 1892. Single storey and attic, 5-bay, courtyard-plan, Gothick stable block with very ornate crenellated front elevation comprising arched gateway, blind arcaded walls and cross-finialed gabled outer bays with pointed-arch recesses; rear entrance through plain gateway in E (rear) range. Accommodation includes stables, coach houses, tack room and groom's quarters in gabled ranges. Squared, snecked sandstone with polished red sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course and corbelled, crenellated parapet to front elevation. Flush, tabbed, chamfered, round-arched ashlar window and door margins to courtyard and side elevations; gabled dormers to attic basket-arched windows. Timber-boarded doors.

PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: central 2-leaf timber-boarded gate with open, interlocking arched detail at top set into moulded archway with engaged columns and hoodmould; panel set in centre of parapet over arch inscribed 'Judge Nought' and sculpted stone hand emblem holding club above. Blind round-arch arcading to left and right. Advanced gables to outer bays with rosette windows set in large pointed-arch recesses with engaged columns.

COURTYARD: open cartshed supported on stone column to left of pend. S range with basket-arched cartsheds at ground and groom's quarters above; lower gabled range to E; N stable range with round- arched doors and windows, dormered hayloft to attic and louvred timber ridge vents. Lower ancillary stable building to E range with round-arched doorways and triple-hole vents near eaves.

Predominantly 6-pane glazing in fixed light windows with Gothick-arched glazing to top-opening hoppers; 6-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to dormers. Ridge stacks with ashlar cope and small yellow cans. Welsh slate roofs with ashlar ridge on front section and zinc ridges elsewhere. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts.

INTERIOR: late 19th century interior fittings; fittings in stable on N by the Carron Company with cast iron posts between stables decorated with horses heads; grooms room in NW corner lined with pitch pine with late 19th century cast-iron fireplace.