Archaeology Notes

Event ID 709728

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT06NE 2.00 07259 67251

NT06NE 2.01 0695 6697 Gateway and Sundial

NT06NE 2.02 0722 6736 Ice House

NT06NE 2.03 06987 67088 Steading

NT06NE 2.04 07208 67169 Stables

NT06NE 2.05 07424 67187 Gateway

NT06NE 2.06 07069 66867 South gate-lodge and gate

NT06NE 2.07 0 6 Gate-lodge and gate

NT06NE 2.08 0 6 Bridge

NT06NE 65 07057 67563 Bank Street, Gate-lodge; Gate-piers

NT06NE 76 07440 67148 The Dry Brig

(NT 0725 6724) Calder House (NR) (Restored)

OS 6" map (1958)

Calder House, a 16th-17th century mansion (SDD List 1963) is L- shaped on plan. At its base, the rubble walls are heavy, and on S and W up to 8' thick, suggesting that an older structure has been incorporated. The building is 3 storeys and a garret high. The N wing was extended in the later 17th century, and additions were made c.1780 and in 1880, in the re-entrant angle and on the W side of the wing.

The seat of Lord Torphichen, the barony of Calder has been held by the Sandilands family since c.1350. John Knox openly celebrated the reformed communion for the first time here in 1556.

H B M'Call 1894; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1921

The house, extensively restored, is as described and planned and in good structural condition.

Visited by OS (JLD) 21 February 1953 and (DWR) 28 March 1974