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Field Visit
Date 6 August 1908
Event ID 1088522
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088522
186. Hutton Hall.
This mansion-house (O.S. ‘Hutton Castle’) is situated above the right bank of the Whitadder, about 11 miles southeast of Chirnside Church. The earliest portion consists of a small rectangular keep which projects at the south-east end of the house. It measures 30 feet by 24 feet over the walls and is three storeys high, with a circular projecting tower at the north-west containing the staircase. A mansion of later date extends westwards from the keep, forming with it three sides of a courtyard. The whole of the ground floor is vaulted. The doorway is through a square projection in the north-west angle of the courtyard, which contains a wide wheel staircase leading to the first floor. Above this entrance is a panel containing a fragment of a shield bearing arms: lst and 4th, Three papingos (?); 2nd and 3rd, A lion rampant. On either side of the base of the shield are the letters E and H, and the remains of an H are visible on the upper portion of the panel at the sinister side. Within recent years the house has undergone considerable alterations, and has been almost completely modernised. The actual keep remains as formerly, with the exception of its round projecting tower, which has been heightened.
See Cast. and Dom. Arch., iv. p. 193 (plan and illus.).
RCAHMS 1915, visited 6th August 1908.
OS Map: Ber., xvii. NE.
