Bonjedward House

Bonjedward House is a classical villa of later 18th-century date, with early 19th-century work and mid-19th-century addition and alteration. It is graded as a building of regional importance.

The main house is a symmetrical, two-storey structure with attic, arranged in three bays. A band course runs above a basement on the ground floor, falling away to the rear. The walls are constructed of sandstone rubble with the harling removed, dressed with polished cream ashlar. The eaves are moulded with long and short quoins, and the ground floor windows are slightly taller than those above. A mid-19th-century service wing extends to the north, detailed similarly but with a solid parapet and sill.

The west entrance front features a slightly advanced centre bay with a blocking course and slender quoin strips. The principal doorway is pilastered and corniced, containing a panelled door, a 4-pane rectangular fanlight, and 4-pane sidelights. Above sits a tripartite window, with a slate-hung box-dormer at the centre. Windows light each floor of the flanking bays. A three-bay wing set back to the outer left rises as a single storey on a raised basement, with similar detailing, a flat roof, and harled finish; its left window is smaller than the rest.

The south elevation displays two storeys and attic arranged in three bays on a raised basement, with windows to all floors of all bays and a central dormer matching that on the west front.

The east elevation similarly shows two storeys and attic in three bays on a raised basement. The central bay is canted, with quoin strips applied to the leading edges and a blocking course at the head. Single windows light each face of this bay, with windows to all floors of the outer bays and a central dormer. To the outer right, a two-storey, three-bay wing projects with irregular fenestration: at ground floor, a large bipartite window to the left, a single window at the centre, and a pair of narrow windows to the right; the first floor has a single window to each bay.

The north elevation matches the south in its basic three-bay arrangement, but includes a wallhead stack at the centre and a projecting wing covering the ground and basement of the two right bays. This wing contains a door and window at basement level with a window above. A much later double garage stands at ground level to the right.

Windows throughout are 12-pane timber sash and case, reduced to 9 panes in the basement and 8 panes to the sides of the canted bay. The roof is piend and platform, covered in grey slates with coped ashlar stacks topped by octagonal cans.

The interior features an entrance lobby leading to a central stair hall lit by a drum cupola. Principal rooms retain delicate neo-classical plasterwork. The dining room is distinguished by a Greek key frieze and a pilastered sideboard recess in the end wall, now converted to a kitchen. The basement preserves much of its 19th-century kitchen and service accommodation.

The walled garden consists of coped rubble walls approximately 2.5 metres high. Originally rectangular in plan, it was extended in the mid-19th century with canted side walls. A square piend-roofed apple store and greenhouse stand on the north-west wall.

The house is situated on a south-facing slope to the south-west. The estate was acquired by the Lothian family as a dower house around 1840, when the service wing was added. It forms a group with surviving stables to the south-west and an entrance lodge on the A68, both listed separately. A tile-hung bungalow, built in the 1970s, stands on the lawn to the east. The interior shows marked similarities to Glenburn Hall. The New Statistical Account describes Bonjedward as a 'modern mansion house' in 1834. An earlier building is recorded on or near the site from 1671.