Archaeology Notes

Event ID 722558

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT86SE 5.00 85426 63013

NT86SE 5.01 85352 62815 South Lodge

NT86SE 5.02 85456 63222 North Lodge

NT86SE 5.03 85338 62863 South Bridge

NT86SE 5.04 85429 63117 Walled Garden

NT86SE 5.05 85426 63055 Garden Bridge

NT86SE 5.06 85390 63019 Garden Bridge

NT86SW 31 c. 842 638 Houndwood Hunting Lodge

(NT 85426 63013) Houndwood House (NAT).

OS 6" map, Berwickshire, 2nd ed., (1909).

Houndwood House incorporates a peel tower, which has been preserved in its entirety. A stone above the door of the house, bearing the date 1656, came from the old mansion-house of Fulfordlees (NT 7668) which was pulled down before 1879.

J Hardy 1882.

The date of the present Houndwood House, extensively enlarged and modernised early this century, is not known. There are no external indications of a peel-tower but, within, at the east end, is a spiral stone stairway, and the basement is barrel-vaulted. A room off the stairway is called the 'Tower' room.

There is reputed to have been a dwelling at Houndwood in 1143 and Mary, Queen of Scots, is said to have stayed there in 1555 (Information from Mr J K T Glen, owner, Houndwood House).

Visited by OS (WDJ) 21 February 1966.