43 West High Street, Lauder

43 West High Street in Lauder is a cottage likely built in the early 19th century, with later alterations. It is a single-storey building with six bays, created by merging two three-bay cottages. The exterior is made of whinstone rubble with render-pointed repairs and features large lintel stones.

The southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has three bays on the left. It includes a central entrance with a boarded timber door, a window to the left, and a later canted window to the right. The three bays on the right feature a central entrance with a part-glazed replacement door, a window to the left, and an entrance with a boarded timber door to the former byre on the right.

The northeast elevation is mostly blank, with an enlarged window to the left, a small low window to the right, and a timber-lintelled window at the outer right. Both the northeast and southwest elevations have blank gable ends.

The cottage primarily has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is topped with a grey slate roof that includes a rooflight on the south pitch. There is a central rubble ridge stack and a gablehead stack on the southwest that has been rebuilt in brick.

Inside, there is a surviving box bed with a timber sliding shutter track at the top and bottom, though the shutters are now missing, and it has a replacement bed base. An adjacent fitted panelled dresser from the same period remains intact. The ceiling features timber beams and boarding, while the plain stone chimneypiece has a simple bracketed mantelpiece. The inner door has broad boards. The byre on the northeast side has a cobbled floor with a channel, bare rubble walls, and joist holes from an upper floor that has been removed. A new timber roof structure with sarking boards has been added.