3 Bridge House Terrace, Peebles

1736, partially rebuilt 1872; restored 1984. 2-storey and attic

flatted terrace with balcony access; 2 identical blocks of 4 flats to

E; W block with 2 shops at ground and flat above. Harled with ashlar margins and quoin strips; doors with rectangular plate glass fanlights.

N (BIGGIESKNOWE) ELEVATION: symmetrical E blocks with paired doors to centre at ground, flanked by narrow windows, and windows to outer bays; at 1st floor pair of narrow windows at centre and windows to outer bays. Irregular W block with door flanked by windows at ground; at 1st floor window to left and pair of narrow windows to right.

W ELEVATION: gabled; shop at ground with 2-leaf glazed door at centre flanked by large segmental-headed plate glass windows with recessed aprons; date stone, 1984, above door. Pair of windows at centre at 1st floor. Framed panels in gablehead dated 1736 and 1872.

S (RIVER) ELEVATION: E blocks as above but with floors reversed; smaller windows flanking doors; access to flats via balcony supported on cast-iron columns; pair of piend-roofed canted dormers to each block; far right window at ground (to No 5 Biggiesknowe) converted to back door with steps to ground. W block with pair of windows at ground (that to left largely obscured by steps to balcony); at 1st floor door to left flanked by small windows, and window to right; single dormer to right, as above, and Velux window to left.

E ELEVATION: blank gable with adjoining buildings abutting to right.

Originally (1872) 4-pane timber sash and case windows but many modern windows. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks with ashlar quoin strips and coping.