Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

EDGERSTON HOUSE WITH GATEPIERS, TERRACES AND WALL GARDEN, BIRDPOOL, AND ENTRANCE GATESLB13360

Status: Designated

Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Category
A
Date Added
16/03/1971
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Parish
Jedburgh
NGR
NT 69040 11563
Coordinates
369040, 611563

Description

3-storey and basement 9-bay classical mansion house with chequered building history. Central 7-bay block apparently early 18th century rebuilding of 17th century house incorporating older tower (probably 16th century); extended at eithe rend circa 1790; border tower added to SW corner in 1834/5, perhaps by John Dobson of Newcastle, with early 20th century alterations. Interior refitted in early 20th century; Library by Sir Guy Dawber; some other work by John Watherston & Sons, 1916. Ashlar.

N ELEVATION: 3-storey and raised basement 9-bay entrance front; long and short quoins, chamfered arrises. Attic and basement windows shorter. Base course, basement below finished with rust coloured render. Cavetto moulded eaves and pediment. Central 3 bays projecting, pedimented; projecting outer bays same height but 2-storey. Regular fenestration. Steps with moulded treads and applied scrols to the side, supported on a basket arch over basement area to door at centre. 2-leaf 6-pane graduated fielded panel doors; rectangular fanlight with geometric glazing. Baroque Tuscan doorpiece with 3 layers of superimposed pilasters, outer fluted, and cornice. Ground and 1st floor windows with reeded arrises, those at 1st floor with shouldered architraves. 4 flanking bays, outer right with panelled door and 3-light rectangular fanlight at basement; central 7 bays with 2nd floor windows at eaves level. Outer bays with tall Venetian window at ground, single window above and pair of basement windows.

W ELEVATION: 3-storey; basemtn built out to square; pair of glazed doors at centre flanked by large square windows; projecting piend roofed veranda with rustic timber supports; cast-iron railings to terrace above; terrace also approached by stone steps from S. 3-bay bow at centre above, taller windows to 1st floor; long and short quoins to N.

S ELEVATION: 3-storey and raised basement 9-bay garden front; regular fenestration; disposition mirrors N elevation bar 3 centre bays. Base course above basement; 3-bay semi-circular rubble bow at centre; 4 flanking bays and entire basement finished with rust coloured render. Outer projecting bays rubble. Tower adjoings W corner.

E ELEVATION: 2-storey and basement with 3-bay bow at centre; long and short quoins to N. Basement area with subterranean cellars, approached from N. Tower adjoins S corner.

TOWER: 3-stage square tower; clasping buttresses, corbel course to crenellations. Window to each floor at centre on each elevation; hoodmoulds; later (early 20th century) windows, orange sandstone with heavy moulded hoodmoulds to all but N elevation. Base course. Later (probably early 20th century) mansard roof.

E ELEVATION: small bipartite windows to each floor. Single dormer.

S ELEVATION: 10-light mullioned and transomed window at ground; 6-light at 1st floor; 3-light mullioned only window at 2nd floor. 2 dormers.

W ELEVATION: entrance at left; Tudor doorway adjoined by closet window to left; mullioned 3-light window to right; 10-light mullioned and transomed iwnodw at 1st floor; 3-light mullioned window to 2nd floor.

N ELEVATION: original ashlar bipartites to each floor, bracketed cills, delicate hoodmoulds. Entrance to basement from area. 2 oculi dormers in mansard.

12-pane timber sash and case windows throughout, except centra terrace window of E front, with French casement window to lower half, and leaded metal casemtn windows to all elevations of Tower except N.

4 symmetrical ashlar stacks to platform of main block, with pulvinated coping; clustered angle chimneys at S of Tower. Grey/green slates. Cavetto moulded eaves; cast-iron rainwater goods and railings to stairs. INTERIOR: relatively plain, but in good condition; extensively refitted in early 20th century. Vestibule with 2-leaf panelled doors with glazed inset leads via Edwardian Baroque pedimented doorcase flanked by Ionic columns to inner hall containing cantilevered stone stair. Garden room beyond, flanked to W by Small Dining Room with 18th century panelling imported from London at the beginning of 20th century, to E study with Spanish leather wallhangings inserted at a similar date and marble basket arch fire surround. Outer rooms full depth of house; to W Dining Room with plain fireplace, dado; to E Drawing with Adam-style fireplace with flanking paired Corinthian columns and figurative tablet at centre of frieze (this also introduced in 20th century), dado. Spiral stair to N between Dining Room and Hall with barleytwist turned balusters. Above Drawing Room, Library with plain fitted shelves lining all walls.

BIRD POOL: to E of house early 20th century triangular stone Lorimerian bird pool with herons at each corner, mounted on a large stepped triangular base.

GATEPIERS, TERRACES AND WALLED GARDEN: erected since 1933; on axis to S, closing dwarf-walled Italian garden, with decorative wrought-iron gates to sequence of terraces with ponds, joined by axial stone steps. Piers of reddish droved sandstone with coping stones supporitng 17th century lions rampant (each lion holds child's head between its paws); similar quadrant walls.

ENTRANCE GATES: main gates, opposite church, with square droved ashlar piers and pyramidal caps support timber gates; secondary flanking piers with coping stones. Rubble quadrant walls.

gates to N, at Camptown, similar but on smaller scale.

References

Bibliography

RCAHMS ROXBURGHSHIRE I Nos. 443,457. A Jeffrey THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROXBURGHSHIRE II p.304. SCOTTISH FIELD March 1959 pp.42-44. Groome's GAZETTEER II p.467. NMRS Drawings RXD 350/1-8. RHP 22228, 31884. Rutherford of Edgerston MSS NLS. Sale Catalogue May 1980 NMRS. T. Faulkner and A. Grey JOHN DOBSON NEWCASTLE ARCHITECT 1787-1865 1987. Information on Dawber courtesy of Laurence Kinney, Kinney & Green, London.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

Listed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. The relevant planning authority is the point of contact for applications for listed building consent.

Find out more about listing and our other designations at www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support. You can contact us on 0131 668 8914 or at designations@hes.scot.

Images

There are no images available for this record, you may want to check Canmore for images relating to EDGERSTON HOUSE WITH GATEPIERS, TERRACES AND WALL GARDEN, BIRDPOOL, AND ENTRANCE GATES

There are no images available for this record.

Search Canmore

Printed: 28/03/2024 18:58