Tantah, Edderston Road, Peebles

Dated 1884; subdivided in 1949. Large 2-storey and attic villa. Whinstone with cream sandstone dressings, stugged quoins. Overhanging eaves, exposed rafters. Rounded arrises; timber gabled bipartite dormers; stone mullions.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Right bay slightly set back; windows to both floors with shouldered and moulded architraves; dormer; enclosed by dwarf wall with panelled parapet. Central bay with 3-storey tower in re-entrant angle; square at ground with architraved window to N, and doorway to W return; diagonally boarded and panelled 2-leaf door with

letterbox fanlight; reduced to round at 1st floor; bipartite window to N with fluted frieze and cornice; date panel 1884 to right; moulded string course above; 3rd storey with 6 narrow round-headed windows joined by impost band; moulded cornice; pepperpot roof and wrought-iron finial. Gabled left bay with 2-story canted window; smooth chamfered arrises and pierces strapwork parapet; round-headed window in gablehead; decorative bargeboards. Set back to left, piend-roofed single storey service wing with pair of narrow windows.

W ELEVATION: 3-bay. Broad gabled left bay with flat-roofed canted window at ground; bipartite at 1at floor with shouldered and moulded architrave; round-headed in gablehead. Right bays with windows to both floors; single dormer.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay. Blank gable to left with oculus in gablehead; right bays with windows to both floors; single dormer. To right, service wing with window, door and garage.

E ELEVATION: blank; gable to left largely obscured by service wing; shouldered wallhead stack. Glazed outer stair on rubble base provides access to upper flat.

Timber sash and case windows, altered at ground. Grey slates; rounded, coped ashlar stacks.

INTERIOR: divided into 2 flats, stair removed at ground. Hall with tiled pavement; original Dining Room at ground floor with elaborate vine cornice and sideboard recess.