Archaeology Notes
Event ID 717897
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT56NW 21 c. 543 671
See also NT56NW 17.00.
The predecessor of the present Yester House stood close to the site of the present mansion (NT56NW 17.00, at NT 54348 67161). A series of contemporary paintings, preserved at Yester, shows this house as it appeared shortly before its demolition about 1700. The nucleus of the building was a four-storeyed tower house which (judging from an inscribed fireplace lintel preserved in Yester House) was erected by William, 5th Lord Hay of Yester, in 1582. By the end of the 17th century wings had been added on each side of the tower, while to the N there lay a forecourt and entrance-gateway.
J G Dunbar 1972; C McWilliam 1978.
