Carolside
| Carolside | |
| Berwickshire | |
|---|---|
 Carolside | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NT562399 |
| Location: | 55°39’3"N, 2°41’46"W |
| History | |
| Built 18th century | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
Carolside is an estate by the Leader Water, in Berwickshire and the grand house presiding over it. It is to be found a mile north of Earlston.
The house and estate
Carolside is a late-18th-century country house, Category B listed,[1] set in a former deer park. It was based on a design for Chesterfield House in Mayfair, London by the architect Isaac Ware.[2] The drawing room contains a fireplace designed by Pietro Bossi, taken from Baronscourt, in Tyrone, around 1948.
The gardens include a national collection of pre-1900 Gallica roses, and are open to the public in July each year.[3]
Also on the estate is Park Bridge, a balustraded arch bridge linking the policies of Carolside House and those of Leadervale on the other side of the Leader.[4] The bridge dates to the late 18th century, and has been compared with other bridges designed by Alexander Stevens and William Elliot.[5]
Outside links
References
- ↑ Carolside: Listed Building Report (Historic Scotland)
- ↑ CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Carolside
- ↑ "Carolside". Scotland's Gardens Scheme. http://www.scotlandsgardens.org/garden.aspx?id=d032ed39-c0a1-4cb2-8afe-9fe900a1ed45. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ↑ CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Park Bridge
- ↑ Carolside Bridge: Listed Building Report (Historic Scotland)
- Forman, S (1955). "Carolside House". Scottish Field 103 (630): 38–39.
- Indexes to the Services of Heirs in Scotland, Edinburgh 1863, gives a time of death for James Lauder of Carolside, Berwickshire, and Whitslaid, Selkirkshire, as January 1799