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The house was later restored. It has no outstanding architectural features. | The house was later restored. It has no outstanding architectural features. | ||
A dovecot stands in the grounds north-east of the house, with a date-stone (since moved) inscribed '1532' built into the SE face.<ref>{{canmore|55413|Cavers Carre</ref> | A dovecot stands in the grounds north-east of the house, with a date-stone (since moved) inscribed '1532' built into the SE face.<ref>{{canmore|55413|Cavers Carre}}</ref> | ||
[[File:Parkland at Cavers Carre, Roxburghshire - geograph-3293628.jpg|right|thumb|230px|Parkland at Cavers Carre]] | [[File:Parkland at Cavers Carre, Roxburghshire - geograph-3293628.jpg|right|thumb|230px|Parkland at Cavers Carre]] | ||
==Outside links== | ==Outside links== | ||
*[http://www.stravaiging.com/history/castle/cavers-carre Cavers Carre] on | *[http://www.stravaiging.com/history/castle/cavers-carre Cavers Carre] on ''Stravaiging'' | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
Latest revision as of 23:53, 16 December 2016
| Cavers Carre | |
| Roxburghshire | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NT55132685 |
| Location: | 55°31’60"N, 2°42’45"W |
| History | |
| Built before 1800 | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
Cavers Carre is a house in the parish of Bowden in Roxburghshire. It stands alone in its lands to the north of the Ale Water. Bowden itself is two and a half miles to the north, and a couple of miles to the west and south-west are the little villages of Midlem and Lillesleaf.
There was an older house here, believed to have been a fortified house. This was partly demolished about 1775 to make way for a successor, though stones from the old house are incorporated in the new. It about 1800, this new house in its turn was extended and remodelled.
The present mansion comprises a square main block of two storeys, with sunken cellars beneath, and which looks out on a kitchen court bounded by lower buildings, which appear to be the earliest of the current house. The house has a centre doorway and interesting 'marriage stones' (memorials of successive owners' marriages) have been inserted over each ground floor window.[1]
The house was later restored. It has no outstanding architectural features.
A dovecot stands in the grounds north-east of the house, with a date-stone (since moved) inscribed '1532' built into the SE face.[2]
Outside links
- Cavers Carre on Stravaiging
References
- ↑ Cavers Carre - British Listed Buildings
- ↑ CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Cavers Carre