Abbotshill, Abbotsford Road, Galashiels

William Hay, 1874. 2-and 3-storey, irregular-plan, rambling villa consisting of 4-bay principal block to front and offset long 2-storey block to rear. Baronial, Romanesque and Jacobean details, slender entrance tower, large apsidal-ended cast iron conservatory. Situated on a large sloping site surrounded by informal gardens. Squared stugged buff sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course, first floor string course, eaves cornice. Jacobean strapwork pediments, bay windows with columned mullions.

NORTH (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: irregular fenestration. Off-centre 4-stage tower with crow-stepped cap-house and corner turret. Entrance to base with granite columns and carved over-door.

GARDEN (EAST) ELEVATION: advanced crow-stepped and finialed gables to outer bays with two-storey advanced bay windows; canted to left and square to right.

REAR (WEST) BLOCK: 2-storey block to rear extending N of the principal block. Extended with modern single storey infill behind high wall.

Plate glass and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; fishscale slates to turrets and bays. Shouldered and corniced wallhead and ridge stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: subdivided, but retaining highly decorative interior scheme. Elaborate plasterwork, ceilings, marble and stone chimneypieces, stained glass. Stone stair with unusual foliate wrought iron balustrade.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GARDEN FEATURES: rubble boundary walls to rear and sides. Low sandstone wall to road. Shouldered stone gateway, dated 1883 in boundary wall. Rubble garden steps and terraces. Dilapidated octagonal timber summerhouse. Stone Sundial.