3 Damdale, Peebles

Circa 1890. Picturesque single storey and attic 3-bay L-plan suburban cottage with later additions. Whinstone with cream sandstone dressings. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; stop-chamfered arrises; ground floor windows hard under eaves.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled open timber porch at centre with foliate S-scrolled bargeboarding, bracing and finials; panelled door with 3-pane fanlight and bolection-moulded architrave. Gabled bay to left; flat-roofed 2-sided canted window at ground with ashlar mullions and transoms, pierced frieze and cornice; single window in gablehead. To right, window at ground; gabled timber dormer with vine leaf bargeboarding and finial. Modern dry-dash flat-roofed garage attached to outer right.

S (CROSS ROAD) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Each bay with window at ground and small gabled timber dormer; left dormer with bowed 12-pane window and bargeboarding of pierced scrollwork; right dormer with 2-pane canted window and columns, Gothic fretted bargeboarding; tall finials. Shouldered wallhead stack at centre.

N ELEVATION: blank gable to left obscured by garage at ground. Extension to right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: gable to right with window in gablehead; at centre, lean-to back porch with gabled door; to left, extension at ground and large slate-hung box-dormer.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates, fish-scaled to dormers; whinstone stacks with sandstone dressings and coping; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE: low sandstone base for (removed) railings; decorative timber pedestrian gate to front door with chevron boarding and scrolled ironwork upper panel.