Rathcraig And Hyndlee, Venlaw High Road, Peebles

Rathcraig and Hyndlee is a late 19th-century, two-storey Queen Anne villa situated on a steeply sloping site facing south, with a raised basement at the rear. The building features Scottish 17th century details and is now divided into a separate basement flat known as Rathcraig. It is constructed from whinstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings and rounded arrises.

The north elevation is symmetrical, featuring a semicircular flat-roofed corniced bay at the center. There is a pedimented roll-moulded doorway with a two-leaf panelled door, and the name "HYNDLEA" is carved in the frieze above. This elevation also has a pair of windows on the first floor. The flanking bays contain paired windows at the ground level, with windows on the first floor that break the eaves, topped with segmental-pedimented dormerheads.

The east elevation is gabled and has two bays. A door is located to the right at ground level, leading to a platt that oversails the basement area, with a window above on the first floor. To the left, there is a flat-roofed semicircular bay that serves the basement and ground floors, featuring a cornice and a wrought-iron railing that acts as a balcony for the window above.

The south elevation is irregular, showcasing a full-height canted window to the left with a corbel course above the basement. The center bay has paired stair windows leading to the upper floor and a door to the basement. The right bay includes two windows at the basement level, a bipartite window at ground level, and a single window on the first floor that breaks the eaves, topped with a pedimented gablehead.

The west elevation is also gabled, featuring a window at the basement level on the left and two windows on the first floor. The apex has a stack.

The villa is fitted with timber sash and case windows, with six-pane upper sashes and two-pane lower sashes. The roof is covered with grey slates and terracotta ridge tiles, and it features ashlar-coped skews, scrolled skewputts, corniced ashlar-dressed stacks, and bulbous terracotta cans.

The boundary walls consist of a rubble wall, with cast-iron spearhead railings in front of the basement area, set on a saddleback ashlar base.