Woodside Cottage With Sundial On South Corner

Woodside Cottage, which includes a sundial on the south corner, dates from the late 18th to early 19th century and may have been designed by architect George Fortune from Duns. The building underwent alterations and embellishments in 1894. It is an asymmetrical structure that features a single storey with an attic and a two-storey, four-bay layout, originally serving as an estate dwelling. There is a later lean-to addition that is recessed to the outer left.

The exterior is harled with sandstone ashlar dressings, some of which are droved. It has crowstepped gables, rounded angles, stop-chamfered sandstone margins, and flush sandstone cills.

On the northeast elevation, the central two-bay gabled wing includes a boarded and studded timber door in the right bay, adorned with decorative iron hinges and a two-pane fanlight. This door is framed by an architraved and corniced surround that features the inscription "A.S A.D 1894 I.F.L" embossed in the lintel. To the left, there is a single window at ground level, and above it, a crowstepped gabled wallhead dormer with scrolled beak skewputts. A lower, gabled single storey wing is slightly recessed to the left and has a single window offset to the right of the centre. The two-storey piend-roofed wing is slightly advanced to the outer right and features a stone mullioned bipartite window at ground level, with a corresponding window at the first floor. The engaged square-plan sundial on the south corner is decorated with carved motifs and metal gnomons.

The northwest elevation has a stone mullioned bipartite window at ground level and a single window aligned at the first floor. The central block has lying-pane timber sash and case windows, while the remaining windows include 6-, 10-, and 15-pane glazing. The single storey wing has a 4-pane upper and 2-pane lower timber sash and case window. The roofs are covered with graded grey slates and feature crowstepped skews, beak skewputts, and sandstone ridging. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods, a rendered apex stack on the central block, a corbelled wallhead stack on the rear two-storey block, and circular cans throughout.

The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1997.