Kennels, Ranger's House, St Abbs

Ranger's House in St Abbs is an early 20th-century building with later additions and alterations. It is a single-storey house with an attic, featuring a rectangular plan and crowstepped design. The exterior is harled with red sandstone ashlar dressings, including an eaves course, sandstone quoins, long and short surrounds to roll-moulded openings, and projecting cills throughout. There is a separate single-storey rectangular-plan office, which was formerly a kennel, located to the south.

The entrance elevation on the southeast side has a centrally located two-leaf boarded timber door with a three-pane fanlight above, flanked by generous single windows in the adjacent bays. The northeast side features a gable end with single windows centered on both floors. The northwest rear elevation has a single window at ground level and another in a tall box dormer that breaks the eaves above. The southwest side also has a gable end with single windows centered on both floors. Most windows are timber sash and case with predominantly 18-pane glazing, while the rear includes plate glass and 12-pane windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring crowstepped skews and scroll-bracketed skewputts. There is a coped sandstone ridge stack offset to the left of center and a harled stack offset to the right, both with circular cans. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1999.

The office is a single-storey, three-bay crowstepped block with a later single-storey addition on the right. It has a whitewashed harl exterior with red sandstone ashlar dressings, eaves course, sandstone quoins, long and short surrounds to roll-moulded openings, and projecting cills. The northwest entrance elevation features a centrally located boarded timber door flanked by small windows, with crowstepped projections on the outer left and right. There is also a two-leaf boarded timber door in the later wing to the outer right. The southeast rear elevation is irregularly fenestrated with a three-bay block on the right and single windows in the later two-bay block on the left. The glazing consists of small-pane timber windows and modern rooflights. The roofs are grey slate, with crowstepped skews on the original block and scroll-bracketed skewputts. The office has cast-iron rainwater goods, and the interior has been converted for office use.