Cottage, Kingsmuir Hall, Bonnington Road, Peebles

This is a large, two-story and attic villa, originally built between 1862 and 1863 for Walter Richard, a typefounder, by Alexander Dickson. It is located on Bonnington Road, Peebles, and has been extended to the rear, with the extensions now forming separate houses.

The principal house is constructed of dressed cream sandstone with ashlar dressings. The east elevation is symmetrical with three bays. A prominent, pilastered and corniced doorpiece is centrally positioned, featuring a deep-set, glazed and panelled door and a rectangular plate glass fanlight above. A depressed arched window with a keystone sits above the door at first floor level. Flanking the door are slightly advanced, two-story corniced canted windows. These have panelled aprons at ground floor level, decorative cast-iron balconies at first floor, and pierced ashlar parapets. The attic has broad gableheads with round-headed bipartite windows and ball finials, the central mullion to the right having been removed. The north elevation is irregular with four bays, with two bays on the left slightly advanced and gabled, featuring a lean-to addition at ground floor. The left-hand windows are blind, and there is an apex stack. The two bays on the right have a gabled wallhead stack at centre and a dormer window to the left. The south elevation has five compact bays, with two bays on the right slightly advanced and gabled, featuring cast-iron balconies to the first-floor windows and a round-headed bipartite attic window. There's an apex stack and a piend and platform roof. A two-story canted window is centrally positioned with a cast-iron balcony at the first floor and a narrow window on each floor to the right. A door is located to the left. Two box dormers are also present. The west elevation is largely obscured, exhibiting three bays with outer gabled bays and apex stacks. Timber sash and case windows are present, with plate glass and four-pane glazing.

Attached to the west is Middle House, and to the right of Middle House is a separate cottage. Middle House is built of whinstone with cream sandstone dressings and chamfered arrises; it is a single-story, four-bay link between the Hall and the Cottage, with a glazed door, a rectangular fanlight, a timber canopy, and a bipartite window. Its north elevation incorporates a lower, advanced two-bay block set at a re-entrant angle, a later glazed porch, first-floor windows that break the eaves with gabled dormerheads, and a projecting gabled stack, with a gabled whinstone return to the west featuring a centre window. The cottage is two-stories tall and adjoined at right angles to Middle House. Its west elevation has three bays, with the central bay gabled and slightly advanced, featuring an offset door to the left and a closet window to the right; a blind bipartite window sits above. Blind windows are present on each floor in the flanking bays. The return elevations are gabled with windows to both floors. A rear stair turret has a pepperpot roof.

Corniced ashlar stacks with octagonal cans are a prominent feature, along with ashlar coped skews, corbel skewputts, and purple-grey slates. The interiors were not inspected in 1994.