Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714453

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 419 2675 7390

Name: NT 2675 7390. Site of Lothian Hut (NAT)

OS 1:1056 map, 1854.

This local usage of the word 'Hut' indicates the secondary house of a family who normally had a larger and more imposing residence.

M Tait 1959.

Lothian Hut stood on the site, now occupied by a brewery, a little E of Queensberry House. It was a small mansion, erected by William, the third Marquis of Lothian, about 1750 and demolished in 1825.

D Wilson 1873; C B B Watson 1923.