Upper Kingswood With Greenhouse, Kingsmuir Drive, Peebles

This is a two-story and attic, five-bay, U-shaped villa, dated 1883 with later additions and now sub-divided. It displays Jacobean detailing and is constructed of whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings. The building exhibits regular fenestration, tabbed margins, long and short bull-faced quoins, crenellations, and crowstepped gables.

The east (original entrance) elevation features five symmetrical bays and a base course. Advanced gabled outer bays include bipartite windows at ground level. A moulded string course runs along the elevation, with corniced windows at the first floor, each topped with panels bearing the initials RLDC and DLC to the left and the date 1883 to the right. An oculus is present in the left gablehead, and a window is positioned in the right gablehead. The central three bays are distinguished by crenellations and cresting, with a later (but pre-1899) crenellated ashlar infill at ground level. Tripartite stone mullioned and transomed windows flank a doorpiece, which projects forward with a cornice and blind arcaded parapet, leading to a two-leaf panelled door.

The south elevation has a right bay with windows to both floors and a band course above the ground floor. A gabled ashlar wallhead dormer is topped with a weathervane. A blank gabled return features an oculus in the gablehead. To the left, a narrow, half-gabled bay is set back, mirroring the design above. Further to the outer left is a lower bay, slightly set back, with block-modillioned eaves and an attached greenhouse.

The west elevation is irregular, extending to three stories and six bays. The central three bays step back at each level; at ground level, there are bipartite windows (the central one arched), and a door to the left. The first floor features arched windows in the centre and to the left, while a broad square window occupies the right side. The second floor has an obscured round window to the right, and a broad wallhead stack. A projecting two-story bay stands to the right, featuring a bipartite window at ground level. Block-modillioned eaves adorn these bays. To the left, a projecting three-story tower has windows on each floor, a band course above the first floor, and crenellations. A set-back gabled bay is positioned to the outer left, incorporating a single-story projection at ground level, with windows on each floor and an apex stack.

The north elevation is irregular, comprising three bays with panels under the eaves. A modern garage and porch have been attached at ground level to the right. Windows are primarily timber casements to the front, with leaded and stained glass at ground level. The rear of the building has multi-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows.

The roof is covered in grey slates, with crowstepped gables and corniced ashlar stacks, including panelled square cans.

The interior was not visible during inspection in 1994.

Rubble boundary walls with boulder coping enclose the property, complemented by squat, square ashlar gatepiers with cushion coping.

Attached to the south elevation is an elegant timber greenhouse with a canted end, a coped brick base, opaque glass aprons to the bipartite windows, and a raised glazed ridge ventilator.