10 Bridgend, Duns

Dated 1890. 2-storey, 3-bay, T-plan house with single storey service wing to rear. Squared snecked and stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, to principal elevations. Stop-chamfered arrises; base course; 1st floor windows breaking eaves with gabled dormerheads; ashlar mullions; steeply pitched roofs and overhanging eaves.

W ELEVATION: projecting gabled centre bay; doorcase with rope-moulded arrises, panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight and date panel 1890 above; bipartite window at 1st floor and heraldic panel with Hay crest (goat's head) in gablehead; returns with windows at ground and under eaves at 1st floor; moulded string course at ground floor steps over windows and door. Left bay with canted window at ground; bipartite window to front; piended roof enclosed by moulded gutter; bipartite window above. Right bay with projecting pentice-roofed

bipartite window at ground; bipartite window at 1st floor. Finials

and cross bracing to gableheads.

N ELEVATION: gabled; projecting pentice-roofed tripartite window at ground, angled oriel at 1st floor. 3-bay single storey service wing set back to left; boarded door in re-entrant angle and broad bipartite window to left with gabled dormerhead; blank bay set back to outer left.

S ELEVATION: blank rubble gable; 2-bay single storey service wing set back to right. 2nd bay slightly advanced with bipartite window.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: piend-roofed service wing at ground with door and window at centre. Principal block with windows to outer flanks at 1st floor.

Timber sash and case windows; smaller 6- or 9-pane upper sashes, plate glass lower. Pitched roofs with exposed rafters and bargeboards; cross bracing to gables; grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with chevron decorated octagonal cans.

BOUNDARY WALL: low rubble wall with saddleback coping to road. Recent (1993) rubble wall, piers and steps to W.