Sheriffhall
Building(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Sheriffhall
Classification Building(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 53433
Site Number NT36NW 124
NGR NT 320 679
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53433
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Newton
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT36NW 124 320 679
Some 30 yds SW of the remains of Sheriffhall (NT36NW 6) stands a range of farm buildings. In 1934 this range was due for repair. On stripping the walls it was seen that the lower part of the two storeyed W structure had been an outbuilding roughly contemporary with the mansion (late 16th- or early 17th-century); and the byre at the E end, while of no great age, proved to have been built partly out of reused material. Among the stones in secondary use as rubble were two pieces of 15th-century ecclesiastical work. One, since lost, was a section of a moulded cornice; the other, in the rose-garden of the modern Sheriffhall, was the canopy of a niche; both had been removed from a church of some importance, possibly Newbattle Abbey (NT36NW 14).
G P H Watson 1941.
Project (April 2009 - February 2015)
The Borders Railway Project proposals are to reinstate the Newcraighall to Tweedbank section of the former Waverley Line. The reinstated railway line will be approximately 48km long and the majority of the route will use the existing railway embankment.
Several field surveys, archaeological evaluations and standing building surveys were undertaken by CFA Archaeology from April 2009 until February 2015.
CFA Archaeology
