Holland And Sherry's Warehouse And Offices, 1 Venlaw Road, Peebles

Dated 1883, with 1897 and 1910 extension. Large 2-storey on raised basement Z-plan office and warehouse complex with single storey rear. Coursed bull-faced cream sandstone with ashlar dressings to principal elevations; cast stone to rear. Base and cill courses..

1ST (E) BLOCK: L-plan.

ENTRANCE ELEVATION: to E. Symmetrical 3-storey 3-bay; piend-roofed. Stugged ashlar; long and short quoins; cornice; stop-chamfered arrises. Centre bay recessed; tripartite doorpiece with shouldered doorway and consoled pediment; tripartite windows to upper floors. Flanking bays with hoodmoulded tripartite windows at ground, bipartite windows to

upper floors; those at 2nd floor hard under eaves with bracketed

cills and consoled pediments. Single bay returns with tripartite

window at ground, bipartites above.

S ELEVATION: end bay of entrance pavilion to right (E). 7 symmetrical bays to left, with single and bipartite windows. Similar 4- by 5-bay later block at SW corner.

N ELEVATION: end bay of entrance pavilion to left (E). 7 symmetrical bays to right; centre bay slightly advanced and gabled with bipartite windows (round-headed at 1st floor) with oculus in gablehead and apex stack; flanking bays bipartite - single - bipartite. Ground floor outshot in re-entrant angle.

SET BACK W RANGE: 5 symmetrical bays with bipartite windows and archway at centre; to right, gabled bay with hoodmould and panel in gablehead and kneeler skews. 2-bay return (single windows).

N (2ND) RANGE: added 1910. 3-bay link to W range, single - bipartite - single; ashlar octagonal corner tower, corbelled from basement, with cornice courses, ogee roof and finial; single window to each face. 11 symmetrical bays to N; slightly advanced gabled centre bay with tripartite windows; panel in gablehead and kneeler skews. Flanking bays with alternate segmental-head single windows and rectangular bipartite windows. 3-bay return at NW with bipartite windows flanking

tripartite. Plainer but similar rear (W) elevation with row of gabled and piended roofs.

Timber sash and case 6-pane windows. Purple- grey slates.

INTERIOR: encaustic tiled vestibule; timber stair baluster. Timber floors on cast-iron columns with acanthus leaf capitals. Elaborate stencilled decoration now painted over. 4-bay shed for examination, despatch and shipping. Doors, toilets, lift, &c, largely original.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble boundary walls with saddleback ashlar coping and railings.