1 East High Street, Lauder

1 East High Street in Lauder is an early 19th century detached house with an earlier core. This two-storey and attic building features a double-fronted design and has two single-storey rear wings that were formerly outbuildings. The principal southwest elevation showcases flanking tripartite windows on the ground floor. The main block has rendered principal and side elevations, while the rear is harled. The rear wings and additions are made of harled and whinstone rubble. The principal elevation includes ashlar dressings, a base course, coped gable ends, architraved openings, and slightly projecting cills on the windows.

The southwest elevation is symmetrically arranged with a central entrance that has a flat hood supported by ornamental brackets. The entrance features a six-panel timber door, with the upper panels glazed. On either side of the entrance are tripartite windows with narrower outer lights, and there is a single window in each bay on the first floor.

On the northeast elevation, there is a small projecting two-storey section made of whinstone rubble, which may have originally been single storey. This section has a sandstone long and shorts and a boarded timber door, with a small window to the right and a later window above. The main body of the building has a window set back on each floor to the right, with the first-floor window set back to the left. The harled gable ends of the flanking wings project forward at ground level, each with a window, while the openings to the inner returns have been altered, particularly on the left wing.

The southeast elevation features a single attic window in the gable, and a single-storey wing adjoins to the right with flanking outer windows. The northwest elevation has an entrance with a boarded timber door to the left of the gable end and a single attic window in the gable. A single-storey wing, built at two levels, adjoins to the left, with an entrance featuring a boarded timber door to the right and an inserted window to the left.

The main body of the house primarily has 12-pane or multipane timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered with grey slate, and there are roof lights on the rear pitch of the main body. The main house has flanking harled coped gablehead stacks, while the rear wings have tall harled coped ridge stacks and gable end stacks, with the southeast stack rebuilt in brick and mainly octagonal cans.

The interior has been substantially modernised, but there is a coursed rubble well in the cellar that relates to the earlier structure.