Biniemyre House, Hayward Drive, Galashiels

Circa 1865 with later additions. 2-storey 4 bays to E, 3 bays to N. Irregular-plan and asymmetrical Baronial villa with multiple gables and circular tower. Single-storey wing to rear. Squared buff sandstone ashlar, rubble to sides and rear. Base course, partial corbelled eaves course. Hood-moulded entrance. Gabletted dormers.

EAST (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: chamfered corbelled gabled entrance bay to right. Angled corbelled gable to outer right. Advanced wide gable to left with large tripartite windows. Angle stair tower with steep pitched roof of circular plan, rising to octagonal-plan at first floor.

NORTH (GARDEN) ELEVATION: angled bay to outer left. Polygonal full-height window bay to right .

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. 4-pane timber sash and case windows to garden and rear. Pitched purple slate roofs, alternating green and purple fishscale slates to tower, ashlar skews with pitched skewputts and finials. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme of a variety of periods. Decorative plasterwork cornices. Stone chimneypieces, ingleneuk to ground floor. Timber stair with Arts and Crafts detailed pierced timber balusters and fluted timber pillars. Highly decorative window surrounds and shutters. Billiard room panelled to dado height with decorative door surround and turned timber truss roof.

GARDEN FEATURES AND BOUNDARY WALLS: stone garden steps. Boarded timber summerhouse. Whin rubble boundary walls. Later boundary walls to Hayward Drive.