Stainrigg House

Stainrigg, or Stoneridge House, has been in existence since at least the seventeenth century. The present house results from extensive remodelling carried out in the nineteenth century, and it is not clear how much of the older fabric of the building survives.

The original Stainrigg was a three-storeyed harled structure, built along simple classical lines. A date panel on the north-east wall records the date of construction as 1631. In 1880, the architects Kinnear and Peddie carried out extensive work, which gave the house a very different, Scots Baronial, appearance.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

NT74SE 11.00 78082 43680

(NT 78082 43680) Stainrigg (NAT) (AD 1631).

OS 6" map, Berwickshire, 2nd ed., (1909).

NT74SE 11.01 NT 78240 43833 April Cottage

NT74SE 11.02 NT 78171 43757 Walled Garden

NT74SE 11.03 NT 78306 43751 Well

NT74SE 11.04 NT 78102 43705 Stables and Groom's Cottage

NT74SE 11.05 NT 78084 43716 Kennels

NT74SE 11.06 NT 78081 43703 Cobbled Courtyard

'Stainerigg' appears in the "registrate of the valuation of teinds" made in 1634.

New Statistical Account (NSA, R D Thomson), 1845.

Stoneridge: A small mansion. Though it has a modern appearance, its lower storey is nevertheless very old. It was erected early in the 17th century as the date '1631' is still to be seen in one of the window sills.

OS Name Book 1858.

Stainrigg: name confirmed (Information from Mrs Boswell, occupier, Stainrigg). No trace of the original building is apparent on the exterior of the modern one, which is uniformly faced with stone. A tablet on the NE wall reads, "Erected 1631. Rebuilt 1880." Mrs Boswell is unable to say whether any of the old walls are incorporated in the present house.

Visited by OS (JFC), 18 January 1955.