Southside Castle
Grange (Medieval), Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Southside Castle
Classification Grange (Medieval), Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Southsyde House
Canmore ID 53544
Site Number NT36SE 16
NGR NT 36930 63850
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53544
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Newbattle
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT36SE 16 36930 63850.
(NT 3693 6385) Southside (NAT)
OS 6" map (1966)
Southside or Southsyde Castle is an L-shaped house of the first half of the 17th century; it was semi-ruinous about 1850, but it has been altered and modernised and is now in use as a farmhouse. The building was originally four storeys in height, but the roof has been lowered to provide a storey less; the angle-turrets still rise to their original level. Mullioned dormer windows have been added, and a modern two-storeyed addition has been made in the re-entrant angle. The interior is much altered, the vaulting in the wing having been removed, though the basement of the main block is still vaulted.
Prior to the Reformation, Southsyde was a possession of (the Cistercian) Newbattle Abbey; this house is said to have been built by Patrick Ellis in 1640-4, though it looks to be earlier that this, and possibly Ellis only made alterations to an existing building.
N Tranter 1962; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1892; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1915
Southside is as described.
Visited by OS (BS) 27 October 1975.
