Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 562281
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562281
Caldra House was re-built following a fire that occurred in 1897 when most of the household were away celebrating Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Situated north of the Blackadder Water, a building has existed here since at least the seventeenth century, and possibly earlier; this location is thought to have been the site of a fifteenth-century fortification called a Pele Tower.
Built of stone, with a slated roof, Caldra is built on an L-plan and has two storeys, a basement and attic. It has a Mansard Roof, which comprises a gently-pitched central section which then slopes steeply down over the attic floor. Some of the walls are said to date from an earlier phase of building, but most of the house appears to be of nineteenth-century date.
The interior of the house was damaged following the 1897 fire, and substantial renovations also took place in the late twentieth century.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
