Standing Building Recording

Date August 2017 - July 2018

Event ID 1088816

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088816

NT 50002 09373 (centred on) Due to its extraordinary level

of preservation Stobs Camp, four miles S of Hawick, is an

internationally important WW1 site. It was an arena for

Scotland’s preparation for war and the subsequent handling

of WW1 civilian internees and military prisoners. Although

Stobs’ military connections continued up until the early

1960s, the focus of the Stobs Camp Project is the period prior

to, and during, WW1. It aims to better understand Stobs

and the role it played, to value, share and commemorate

Stobs and the people connected to it and to protect the

camp for future generations. As part of work to ensure

the physical remains are recorded the project conducted a

series of building assessments using a framework provided

by the Home Front Legacy project, a UK-wide venture that

ran throughout the First World War centenary to encourage

communities to record home front sites. Below is a summary

of these assessments undertaken August–October 2017 and

March, May and July 2018. All are located at Stobs Camp

unless specified.

NT 50845 15323 Huts at Mansfield Road Nursery,

Hawick – Three rectangular corrugated huts. Buildings

1 and 2 are on an E/W alignment and are connected by

a timber-lined roofed passageway. Building 3 is on a N/S

alignment. Buildings 2 and 3 are joined. Building 1 is 25.2m

S-facing by 6m W-facing. Building 2 is 9.5m S-facing.

Building 3 is 9m E-facing by 3.6m S-facing. Features of

building 1 include six windows S-facing, one W-facing

and eight N-facing. There is one single door N-facing and

one W-facing. Building 3 has three windows E-facing.

Interiors have been significantly modernised. Building 1’s

corrugated roof is pitched, building 2’s roof is semi-circular

and building 3’s roof is flat.

Archive: Scottish Borders Council and NRHE (intended)

Funder: Heritage Lottery Fund (Scotland), Historic Environment

Scotland, Borders LEADER, Fallago Environment Fund and BCCF

Environmental

Andrew Jepson and Dianne Swift – Archaeology Scotland

(Source: DES, Volume 19)