Todlaw, Station Road, Duns

Todlaw is an earlier 19th century villa with a later 19th century addition, located on Station Road in Duns. This two-storey, three-bay L-plan villa features a later gabled addition that creates a Z-plan layout. The exterior is finished in dressed harl-pointed cream sandstone with ashlar dressings and raised margins on the earlier block.

The south elevation, which was the former entrance front of the original symmetrical house, has a central door flanked by windows on the first floor and in the side bays. The doorpiece is adorned with thin clustered columns with annulets and anthemion capitals, supporting a heavily dentilled cornice. It also features a narrow diamond-pane fanlight above a modern glazed door. To the right, there is a projecting bay with paired bipartite windows at the ground floor and a tripartite window above on the first floor. The return to the left has a window on the first floor.

The west elevation consists of two broadly spaced bays, each with windows on both floors. The east elevation reflects the Z-plan; to the left is an advanced addition with a narrow window on the ground floor. In the center, there is a blank wall with a single-storey rubble service area projecting at ground level. To the right, a set-back range has three closely spaced windows on the first floor and a later dry-dashed flat-roofed single-storey entrance and closet projecting at ground level.

The north elevation continues the Z-plan, featuring a blank wall of the addition to the left. There is a window at the center on the first floor, with a deep-set door and window for the entrance at ground level. An advanced gable to the right has a window to the left at ground level.

The villa has timber sash and case windows, with 12 panes in the original house and 6 panes vertically in the addition. The original house has a piended roof covered in grey slates, with ashlar coped gables and rebuilt brick stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1993. The property is enclosed by a tall rubble boundary wall along the road, featuring semi-circular coping and various openings. The main pedestrian gateway is made of droved ashlar with a Tudor-arched doorway, a studded door with wrought-iron hinges, and elaborate coping.