Viewfield, Selkirk

Viewfield is an earlier 19th-century house with later alterations and additions. It is a single-story house constructed over a basement, originally nine bays wide, situated on a sloping ground where the basement level on the southeast side corresponds to the ground level on the northwest side. A later four-bay group sits slightly recessed to the left. The southeast (principal) elevation is faced with stugged ashlar (roughly dressed stone) with polished ashlar dressings, alongside a later pebbledash addition; the northwest elevation features pebbledash with droved ashlar (smoothly dressed stone) dressings. A band course runs between the basement and ground floors of the southeast elevation, while a base course is present on the northwest elevation. An eaves course and quoin strips are also visible.

The principal (southeast) elevation has a five-bay group slightly advanced at the center. A set of seven steps overhangs the basement, leading to a panelled front door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight above, set within a doorpiece composed of half-fluted Doric columns and a pediment. A window is located to the immediate left of the door. Windows are present in each of the flanking bays, with a blinded (blocked) window on the ground and basement levels of the bay to the inner right. Flanking the five-bay group are two-bay pavilions, each with a window at ground and basement levels. A window is in each bay of the first floor of the addition to the outer left, with a modern, single-story addition projecting from the ground floor.

The northwest elevation showcases a three-bay group centered between two-story canted bay pavilions and the later four-bay group set back to the outer right. The central bay of the three-bay group is pilastered (with flat, rectangular columns attached to the wall) and features a pediment with a roundel and shield in the centre; it has a modern glazed two-leaf door at ground level with a window above on the first floor. Windows are located on the ground floor of each flanking bay, with later tripartite (three-part) windows on the first floor. A window is on the outer left at ground level, and a corniced (projecting with a decorative molding) doorpiece frames a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above on the outer right. Windows are present to each floor of the canted bay. There's a glazed door with rectangular fanlight above at ground level to the center of the right-hand canted bay, and to the first floor to its right; another first-floor window is located to the left of the left-hand canted bay. A window is present in each bay of the later addition on each floor, with one blinded in the bay to the inner left. A further modern, brick, platform-roofed addition extends to the outer right, featuring a two-leaf door.

The windows are a mixture of styles, incorporating 12-, 9- and 4-pane, and plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with slate, and ashlar coped stacks (chimneys) are in place.

The interior retains little of its original features, but a cast-iron banister runs from the basement to the ground floor.

To the north are square-plan ashlar gatepiers topped with pyramidal coping. A rubble boundary wall runs along the northeast boundary, with rounded coping.