Kimmerghame House

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Kimmerghame House
Berwickshire
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Kimmerghame House
Location
Grid reference: NT818508
Location: 55°45’2"N, 2°17’24"W
History
Built 1851
By: David Bryce
Information
Owned by: Gen. Sir John Swinton

Kimmerghame House is a 19th-century mansion in Berwickshire, located two and a half miles south-east of Duns, beside the Blackadder Water. It is the home of the Swintons of Kimmerghame.

The house was designed in the Scots Baronial style by David Bryce in 1851.[1] Kimmerghame today is protected as a Category B listed building.[2]

History

Kimmerghame House before the fire

Kimmerghame was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. An inventory of the house and its furnishing survives from this period.[3] This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s. William Burn had produced designs for a new house in 1825, although nothing was done at the time.[2]

The present house is dated 1851, and was designed by David Bryce. It incorporates interior panelling from the earlier house.[2]

Kimmerghame on fire
After the fire

Kimmerghame was partially destroyed by fire in 1938, and subsequently only partly rebuilt.

The present occupant is Major-General Sir John Swinton KCVO OBE, former Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire,[4] and father of the actress Tilda Swinton.[5]

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