Gateway to Jedburgh Grammar School, Jedburgh

This is a grammar school block dating from the 1880s, built between 1882 and 1884 to the designs of Henry Hardy and John Rutherford Wight. It is constructed in a Neo-Jacobean style with Gothic details. The building has a largely rectangular plan with several projecting elements, including a square bell-tower positioned off-centre above the main entrance. The exterior walls are of squared, snecked, and stugged cream ashlar sandstone, with smooth ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises, a base course, and a first-floor cill course.

The front (east) elevation has five bays, with the two bays on the far right slightly advanced. The far left bay of the ground floor features a stepped three-light lancet window with carved stone quatrefoil rosettes in the window heads. The advanced block includes a buttressed three-stage bell-tower entrance bay and a double-height hall to the left of the tower, with a stepped three-light lancet window projecting through the eaves. The bell-tower has an open timber bellcote with decorative timberwork, a pyramidal fishscaled roof, and a wrought iron finial.

The south elevation is two storeys high with six bays, and features a gablet projecting through the eaves in the central bay, along with a tripartite window at the ground floor. A flat-roofed, parapetted porch abuts much of the ground floor.

The rear elevation is two storeys high, with bipartite ground floor windows and single windows on the upper floor. A pebble-dashed addition with raised window margins was built on the first floor of the left side after the Second World War.

The north elevation has three bays of the single-storey hall block on the left, with bipartite windows set within gabled dormerheads. The right bay is advanced, with a spiral cast iron external staircase leading to a pebble-dashed post-war extension at the first floor.

The windows are generally square-headed, with some bipartite and tripartite lancet windows and segmental-headed openings with stone mullions. Gabletted dormers break the wallhead. Most windows are late 19th-century timber, predominantly sliding sashes, although some are fixed lights or casements. Some replacement timber windows were installed around 2000. The slated roofs are piended, with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, ashlar skews, and octagonal timber ventilators.

Chamfered ashlar gate piers with pointed caps mark the entrance on Queen Street (to the east of the school), flanked by low stugged ashlar walls with saddleback coping and decorative wrought iron railings.

The interior, inspected in 2017, largely consists of late 20th-century replacement fabric with suspended ceilings throughout.

Certain elements are excluded from the listing, including a conservatory to the southeast, a rear extension, and separate blocks such as the Thomson, Rutherford, and Social Dining blocks, the Sports Centre, and the technical department.