Rosebery Cottage, 17 March Street, Peebles

Rosebery Cottage, located at 17 March Street in Peebles, was built in 1880. This is a tall, single-storey house with an attic, featuring a symmetrical design and three bays. The exterior is constructed from dressed whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings, including vermiculated quoins, rubble sides, and a dry-dash extension at the rear.

The front elevation includes a base course, long and short panelled buckle quoins, and margins with buckle tabs. The panelled lintels have stop-chamfered arrises. At the center, there is a panelled and glazed door with a letterbox fanlight above it, and the lintel is inscribed with "ROSEBERY COTTAGE," accompanied by a ciphered plaque. Flanking the door are bipartite windows with bracketed cills and decorated lintels, and a similar lintel course connects with the door. Each window has a panel above it displaying the date "18-80." The front also features a pair of piend-roofed canted timber dormers with finials, along with a modern Velux rooflight at the center.

The east and west elevations have blank gables, each adorned with a blind trefoil in the gablehead. The south elevation is obscured by a large modern extension.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The roof at the front is made of alternating bands of coursed grey slates and greener slates arranged in fishscale and diamond patterns, interrupted by the rooflight. The skews are ashlar coped with scroll-bracketed skewputts, and there are stugged sandstone stacks with ashlar coping, featuring tapering square panelled and coped cans, one of which has been replaced.

The interior was not seen in 1994. The front wall consists of a low rubble whinstone structure.