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Ninewells House
Country House (19th Century)
Site Name Ninewells House
Classification Country House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ninewells House Policies
Canmore ID 59681
Site Number NT85NE 49
NGR NT 86384 55766
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/59681
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Chirnside
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT85NE 49.00 86384 55766
NT85NE 49.01 NT 86688 55446 South Lodge
NT85NE 49.02 Centred NT 86664 55548 Walled garden and Garden Cottage
NT85NE 49.03 NT 86197 55764 Farmsteading
NT85NE 49.04 NT 86467 56042 North Gate-Lodge
NT85NE 49.05 Centred NT 8629 5575 Prisoner-of-war camp
For Ninewells Dovecot (in grounds of Auburn House, Chirnside), see NT85NE 21.
Location formerly entered as NT 86396 55747.
NMRS REFERENCE
Architect: William Burn, 1839.
Robert Adam, 1790: design for a house.
House demolished 1964.
Ninewells house, walled garden and S Lodge are visible on large scale vertical air photographs (OS 70/366/045, flown 1970).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Ninewells; built 1839. Is the successor of the ancestral home of David Hume (1711-76).
(Undated) information from SDD.
Ninewells House is depicted on the OS 2nd Edition map (Berwickshire, sheet XVII, 1898). It was demolished in 1964.
Information from RCAHMS (HMLB), July 2002.
'...the... home... of... David Hume... rebuilt by William Burn, 1839-41, in a handsome Tudor style, but demolished in 1954.'
K [C H] Cruft, J [G] Dunbar and R Fawcett 2006.
Photographic Survey (January 1964)
Photographs of Ninewells House, Berwickshire, taken during demolition, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1964.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding building.
Information from Scottish Borders Council.
