The Geans, Langtongate, Duns

The Geans, located on Langtongate in Duns, is a house dated 1883, with later additions and alterations. It is a single-storey and attic structure featuring three bays, built from stugged squared and snecked sandstone. There is a single-storey wing that projects to the northeast at the rear, along with another addition at the re-entrant angle to the rear. The building has stop-chamfered arrises.

On the southeast elevation, the house has three bays. The central bay contains a boarded door with wrought-iron hinges, which is sheltered by a gabled glazed porch with barge-boarding. To the left, there is a piended canted window, while the right bay is advanced and gabled, featuring a tripartite window with a bipartite window above it at the first floor. A monograph and date stone is positioned above the ground window.

The northeast elevation is gabled and includes a window at the ground level to the outer right, along with a carved plaque featuring the Hay motif set in the gablehead.

The projecting wing to the northeast has a tripartite window on the southeast elevation, an advanced monopitch bipartite window on the ground level of the northeast elevation, and a narrow bipartite window in the gablehead. The northwest elevation is blank and has a shouldered chimney breast that is now truncated at the wallhead.

The windows are plate glass timber sash and case, originally lying-paned, with the only surviving examples on the southwest elevation. The roof is flagged, featuring exposed raft beams and ornamental bargeboarding at the gables, complete with timber finials. There is a gabled bipartite dormer window on the northeast elevation, as well as a bay to the left and another on the northeast elevation of the wing. A 2-pane skylight is located at the center of the northeast elevation. The further addition at the rear has a slate roof, while the main house has cream brick stacks with octagonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1995. Additionally, there is a gateway featuring a timber gate and a pitched shingle-roofed canopy.