Morlands, Station Road, Duns

Morlands is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay classical villa located on Station Road in Duns. The building is constructed of stugged cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings, while the rear is harled.

The front elevation is symmetrical, featuring a slightly advanced central bay with corner pilasters. It has a base course and a cill course on both floors. The ground floor windows are adorned with moulded architraves and cornices, and there is a cornice and blocking course raised at the center. The entrance features a Tuscan Doric doorpiece with paired pilasters and a cornice, leading to a two-leaf panelled door with a plate glass fanlight above. A tripartite window is situated above this door on the first floor. The pavilions on either side have screen walls with plain windows at the ground level, along with a cornice and blocking course.

On the north and south elevations, the principal block has a window at ground level on the west side and a blind window on the first floor at the center, located beneath a wallhead stack. There are single-storey, three-bay lean-to wings made of harl-pointed rubble, each with a window in every bay, and the southern wing features a door in the center bay.

The rear elevation includes a lower broad projecting staircase bay at the center with two windows at ground level and three windows above, flanked by additional windows on the first floor. A service corridor runs at ground level between the advanced half-gabled pavilion wings, each containing a window (with the right one enlarged) and a lobby in the re-entrant angle to the right. A water pump is located at the center of the rear elevation.

The villa features timber sash and case windows, with plate glass on the ground floor at the front and sides, while the other windows are 12-pane. The roof is piended, and there are shouldered and corniced ashlar stacks, one of which has been rebuilt and rendered.

The boundary wall and gates consist of a low ashlar wall at the front with chamfered coping, complemented by elaborate wrought-iron gates and square terminal piers.