38 East High Street, Lauder

This is a mid-19th century farmhouse with an attached single-storey ancillary range located to the southeast. The main farmhouse is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a double-fronted rectangular plan. The northeast elevation, which is the principal facade, has canted tripartite windows on the ground floor, and deep overhanging eaves are present on both the principal and side elevations. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed whinstone, with the rear (southwest) elevation featuring less finely coursed stone. Red sandstone ashlar dressings are used throughout, with quoins marking the corners, and architraved window and door surrounds.

The northeast elevation presents a symmetrical arrangement, dominated by a central entrance. This entrance has a decorative panel projecting upwards from the lintel, topped with a gabled sandstone hood supported by elaborate consoles, and features a four-panel timber door. Flanking the entrance are canted tripartite windows, each with a pitched sandstone roof and droved mullions. There is a wide, gabled dormer window with an overhanging slated roof and timber bargeboards over each bay on the upper floor. A short section of boundary wall, built of coursed whinstone rubble with rounded red sandstone coping, adjoins the left side, curving outward to terminate at a pair of coped red sandstone ashlar gatepiers of square plan. Boarded timber gates provide access to a yard, which is enclosed by the L-shaped ancillary range. The coped gable end of the range adjoins the left gatepost. Along the right return of the yard, three entrances with chamfered and stopped jambs are visible. Two entrances to the rear wing are set back to the right, with a further entrance to the house at a right angle. All entrances have long and short surrounds and boarded timber doors, one incorporating a rectangular fanlight. The entrances to the rear of the range and house are enclosed within a later 20th century part-glazed timber passageway with a sliding door. A short, single-storey lean-to with a window adjoins the doorway on the left return of the house, while a small, late 20th century harled flat-roofed extension is located on the right. A short infill section, slightly later in construction and featuring a window with a replacement architrave, adjoins the left gable end of the ancillary range.

The southwest elevation features a projecting entrance bay with a pitched red sandstone roof on the outer left. The central entrance has a replacement timber door with a glazed upper panel and a rectangular fanlight, accompanied by side lights to window sill level. A window is positioned to the outer right, and piended dormers are present above each of the upper bays, including a taller stair window centrally. The rear wing of the ancillary range adjoins the right side. This wing has five bays, with entrances featuring long and short surrounds and boarded timber doors in the third and fifth bays, a narrow window in between, and two windows to the outer left.

A short section of the ancillary range adjoins a barn on the southeast elevation. The northwest elevation is blank, but adjoins a late 20th century garage.

The windows are primarily 12-pane or multipane timber sash and case, with those on the upper floor of the northeast elevation being horizontally sliding. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with piended roofs on the house and rear wing of the ancillary range. A tall coped red sandstone ashlar wallhead stack is located on the northwest side of the house, while a coped stack is situated to the south of the infill section of the ancillary range, both topped with round cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.