Langton Cottage & Gatepiers, 13 Langtongate, Duns

Langton Cottage and its gatepiers, located at 13 Langtongate in Duns, were built in 1865. This two-storey, three-bay, L-plan cottage features a gabled design and is constructed from squared, snecked, and stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings on the front, while the rear is made of rubble. The cottage has projecting eaves with exposed rafters.

On the northeast elevation, there is a base course with stop-chamfered arrises and ashlar mullions. The central entrance features a deep-set panelled door topped with a letterbox fanlight, positioned under the eaves. The right bay of the cottage projects from the main body and includes a tripartite window at ground level, which is corbelled to a broader width at the first floor, where a bipartite window is situated largely within the gablehead. The left bay has a canted window at ground level (bipartite to the front) and is corbelled to a square at the first floor, featuring another bipartite window and a datestone marked 1865 in the gablehead, with the roof cut back at the eaves. To the right, there is a later single-storey lean-to link that leads to a garage.

The east elevation shows the gable (return of the front range) to the right with overhanging eaves, and windows to the left at ground level and in the gablehead. A plain two-bay range is set back to the left.

The west elevation has a blank gable of the front range, which is largely obscured by the link to the garage.

The cottage features timber sash and case windows with multi-pane designs, including lying panes on the front. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a brick stack with octagonal cans.

The gatepiers, boundary wall, and railings consist of a low ashlar wall at the front with saddleback ashlar coping. There are a pair of obelisk gatepiers at the center and a single one terminating the wall to the west. Modern wrought-iron railings and a gate with a repeating heart motif are present, along with rubble return walls to the sides topped with boulder coping.