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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 876091

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/876091

NT73SW 5.00 71110 34670

(NT 7110 3467) Floors Castle (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1938).

NT73SW 5.01 NT 7110 3467 Garden

NT73SW 5.02 NT 708 342 Formal Garden

NT73SW 5.03 NT 70593 34907 Kennels and Gamekeeper's House

NT73SW 5.04 NT 70753 34985 Home Farm (including sawmill)

NT73SW 5.05 NT 72199 34419 and NT 72216 34444 Gateway and Lodges (Entrance Gates)

NT73SW 5.06 Centred NT 7066 3451 Formal Garden

NT73SW 5.07 NT 70593 34907 Icehouse

NT73SW 5.08 NT 71355 34380 Holly Tree

For (associated) pond, see NT63SE 38.

See also:

NT73SW 9 NT 7034 3353 Cist

NT73SW 51 NT 719 343 Burgh (West Kelso)

NT73SW 57 NT 7220 3439 Lodge Park excavations (occupation site)

NT73SW 81 Centred NT 7030 3370 Wester Anna (cropmarks)

Floors Castle. Sir John Vanburgh is believed to have designed this seat for the first Duke of Roxburghe, in 1718. Originally it consisted of an oblong main block with towers at the four corners standing at the back of a forecourt open to the NW and enclosed on the NE by the East Pavillion, or stables, and on the SW by the West Pavillion, or offices. The whole had a frontage of 412ft. From 1838 to 1849 Vanburgh's design was modified and enhanced by W H Playfair of Edinburgh.

RCAHMS 1956.

The residence of the Duke of Roxburgh.

Visited by OS (RDL) 6 December 1963.

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