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Eaglescairnie House
Armorial Panel (16th Century), Country House (18th Century), Country House (20th Century)
Site Name Eaglescairnie House
Classification Armorial Panel (16th Century), Country House (18th Century), Country House (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Eaglescairnie House Policies
Canmore ID 56115
Site Number NT56NW 15
NGR NT 51882 69467
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/56115
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Bolton
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT56NW 15.00 51882 69467
(NT 51882 69467) Eaglescairnie (NAT)
OS 6" map (1970)
NT56NW 15.01 51744 69463 Walled Garden with Hot-House
NT56NW 15.02 51203 69233 Bridge
NT56NW 15.03 51818 69394 Stables
NT56NW 15.04 51038 69187 Lodge
NT56NW 104 51813 69140 Home Farm
NMRS REFERENCE:
Gutted by fire in 1936. Rebuilt 1939.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This house is mainly modern, but its northern portion dates from the late 17th or early 18th c. This part is L-shaped on plan, and within the re-entrant angle is a stair tower. An armorial panel, dated 1595, now inserted above the coach house door, has presumably come from an earlier house on the site.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1923
The early portion of this building is indistinguishable from the modern, the whole having been whitewashed. The armorial panel is at NT 5182 6939.
Visited by OS (BS) 13 July 1975
Eaglescairnie was built about 1760, with an E extension dating to about 1830. The RCAHMS suggestion of a 17th century date for the stair-turret at the back is rather dubious as it contains a distinctively 18th century stair. Detection is difficult as the building was burned out in the 20th century, and has since been restored.
C McWilliam 1978
Field Visit (19 February 1923)
This house, ¾ of a mile south-east of Bolton, is mainly modern, but the northern portion dates from the late 17th or early 18th century. This portion is L-shaped on plan, and within the re-entering angle is a stair tower. That there was an earlier house is evidenced by an armorial panel, dated 1595, now inserted above the coach house door. The panel is flanked by initials G H and A H for George Halyburton of Eaglescairnie and his wife A Hunter and bears on the upper part three mascles on a bend, with a star in sinister chief and a rose (? actually a cross within a circle) at the dexter base, one or other for difference; on the lower part the three hunting horns of Hunter. The treatment of these arms is uncommon: instead of being impaled they are placed one above the other, that of Halyburton occupying what would be the chief of a shield treated as a segment of a circle projecting downwards.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 19 February 1923.
