Upper Kingswood With Greenhouse, Kingsmuir Drive, Peebles

Dated 1883; later additions; now sub-divided. 2-storey and attic 5-bay U-plan villa with Jacobean details. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings. Regular fenestration; tabbed margins; long and short bull-faced quoins; crenellations and crowstepped gables.

E (ORIGINAL ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5 symmetrical bays; base course. Advanced gabled outer bays with bipartite windows at ground, moulded string course, corniced windows at 1st floor with panels above (initials RLDC and DLC to left, date 1883 to right), oculus to left gablehead, window to right. 3 central bays with crenellations and cresting at centre; later (but pre-1899) crenellated ashlar infill at ground with tripartite stone mullioned and transomed windows flanking doorpiece; open porch breaking forward with cornice and blind arcaded parapet; 2-leaf panelled door.

S ELEVATION: right bay with windows to both floors, band course above ground, 3 panels below eaves; gabled ashlar wallhead dormer with weathervane. Blank gabled return with oculus in gablehead. Set back to left, narrow single half-gabled bay as above. To outer left further lower bay, slightly set back with block-modillioned eaves and attached greenhouse (see below).

W ELEVATION: irregular 3-storey 6-bay. 3 closely spaced bays at centre, stepping back at each storey; at ground, bipartite windows (centre one arched) and door to left; at 1st floor arched windows to centre and left, broad square window to right; at 2nd floor, obscured round window to right and broad wallhead stack. Projecting 2-storey bay to right with bipartite window at ground. Block modillioned eaves to above bays. To left, projecting 3-storey tower with windows to each floor, band course above 1st floor, and crenellations. Set back gabled bay to outer left with single storey projection at ground and windows to each floor; apex stack.

N ELEVATION: irregular 3-bay; panels under eaves. Modern garage and porch attached at ground to right. Timber casements to front (leaded and with some stained glass at ground), multi-pane and plate glass timber sash and case to rear.

Grey slates; crowstepped gables; corniced ashlar stacks, panelled square cans.

INTERIOR: unseen 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble boundary walls with boulder coping. Squat square ashlar gatepiers with cushion coping.

GREENHOUSE: elegant timber greenhouse with canted end attached to S elevation; coped brick base, opaque glass aprons to bipartite windows; raised glazed ridge ventilator.