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Waterside, Old House
Boundary Bank(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Building(S) (17th Century), Enclosure (17th Century), Hut (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Waterside, Old House
Classification Boundary Bank(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Building(S) (17th Century), Enclosure (17th Century), Hut (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 56916
Site Number NT61SE 19
NGR NT 6556 1005
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/56916
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Southdean
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT61SE 19 6556 1005.
(NT 6556 1005) Waterside (NAT)
OS 25"map, (1970).
Though altered, gutted, and now semi-ruinous, this old building was evidently once a dwelling-house, not a stable as latterly. Comprising a ground floor and garret, it is oblong in shape, measuring 37ft by 20ft over walls 2 3/4ft thick; but an outshot, long since removed, has been attached to each gable, the entrances to both outshots being traceable although now built up. On the SE side there is a central doorway, obviously enlarged by the raising of the lintel and the lowering of the threshold when the place became a stable. On either side of the entrance there is a small window, prepared for glazing in the upper part and for a shutter in the lower. These openings all have chamfered dressings of the late 17th century. The interior is now a single compartment. An enclosure on the NW was presumably the garden.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1945.
As described by the RCAHMS.
Visited by OS(RD) 17 February 1967.
Field Visit (22 April 1992)
Immediately to the N of an old drove road and occupying the SE corner of a trapezoidal enclosure, there are the remains of a building. The building, which comprises a ground floor and a garret, has three bays with a central door placed between two windows, each decorated with a chamfered sandstone dressing appropriate in a building of late 17th century date. It measures 9.8m from NE to SW by 4.7m transversely within earth-bonded rubble-faced walls 0.8m in thickness and 2.5m in height. There is a fireplace in the NE gable, both at ground floor and in the garret, and blocked doors at either end, which gave access to now demolished outshots. (ROX92 89)
The trapezoidal enclosure measures 42m by a maximum of 22m within a much-reduced bank. From the SW corner of the enclosure two roughly parallel banks, about 10m apart, run SW for about 100m before bifurcating to form successive enclosures against the S bank of the Jed Water. The interior of the enclosures contains traces of rig, which has been disturbed in recent times by the construction of a number of field drains. Situated in heather-covered ground to the S of the enclosure banks (NT 6537 0997), there is what is either a turf hut or a collapsed shooting butt.
On Blaeu's map of Teviotdale, based upon Pont (Blaeu 1654), "Watersyde" is depicted, apparently incorrectly, to the W of "Slack", but another place called Wadeshill is shown to the E in what is a more correct location. However in the mid-18th century Waterside is mapped at about the correct location (Roy 1747-55 and Stobie 1770) and Wadeshill is not shown at all. This cartographic confusion cannot be resolved without further evidence, especially since Wadeshill cannot be located. In the Hearth Tax Return of 1691 there are three persons each with one hearth at Waterside (SRO E69/21/1). The extant building with the attached enclosure is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Roxburghshire 1863, Sheet 27) and an unroofed building is shown opposite, of which no trace could be found at the date of survey.
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 22 April 1992.
Sbc Note
Visibility: Upstanding building, which may not be intact.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
