Sbc Note

Event ID 1023169

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Sbc Note

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The current buildings at Lairds Hill, Bulters Chase and Highfield are within the area of the medieval and early modern estate house, and possible tower, of Stichill. This appears on Pont's Map as distinct from Kirk of Stichill (the modern village) and shows on Roy's map as a long rectilinear building with two projecting wings to the south-east forming a semi-enclosed courtyard. Two outbuildings and an enclosure existed to the east in the approximate location of Highfield. The house sat within a designed landscape, much of which is apparently now gone. Roy's map shows a grand tree-lined avenue conecting Stichill House with Stichill 'toun'. The avenue ended at the kirk in Stitchill. 2007 aerial photos show two parallel linear cropmarks to the south-east of Lairds Hill which may correspond to the avenue.

Information from Scottish Borders Council