Description

James Pearson Alison, 1911. 2-storey and attic 3-bay rectangular plan neo-Georgian farmhouse. Irregular stugged squared and snecked cream sandstone masonry; long and short pink ashlar dressings and base course; ground floor windows slightly taller; overhanging eaves.

S (ENTRANCE) FRONT: 2-bay; panelled door with diamond pattern fanlight deep-set to right bay; architraved doorcase with cornice; windows above and to left bay.

W (GARDEN) FRONT: symmetrical 3-bay with attic; centre bay canted with moulded cill course; single windows to each face (flanking ones narrower); wallhead breaking eaves with moulded coping to form balcony for tripartite box dormer. Flanking bays with windows to each floor.

N ELEVATION: 3 irregular bays; windows to each bay at ground, and to centre at 1st floor; to outer left projecting piend-roofed single storey service porch with square shuttered coal-shute opening.

E ELEVATION: 3 irregular bays; large square stair window off centre with decorative glazing bars typical of Alison; 3 windows below to left at ground; single windows flanking at 1st floor; to right at ground broad projecting single storey piend-roofed jamb with 3 windows. To right single storey rear porch with opening to door at left. 12-pane timber sash and case windows (8-pane to sides of canted bay and to some secondary windows). Piended roof, grey slates; corniced masonry stacks. INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Statement of Interest

Pearson built many villas in Jedburgh Burgh, although most have a distinctly Victorian flavour compared to the stripped neo-Georgian of Kersheugh, with its unusual side entrance.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56619930

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback