Kelso, Maxwell Lane, The Knowes, Waverley Lodge

Waverley Lodge lies on the corner of Maxwell Lane and The Knowes in Kelso. The house was built probably in the early nineteenth century and incorporates an earlier cottage where Sir Walter Scott resided in the spring of 1783. The building is rectangular on plan, standing two storeys high.

The association with the famous writer is immediately evident as a bust of Scott is displayed on the west gable. A statue of Maida, Scott's faithful hound, stands above the garden gateway. Waverley Lodge was enlarged with Tudor details in the mid-nineteenth century, this work probably coinciding with its use as a schoolhouse, as shown on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of Roxburghshire (1860).

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