Nisbet House
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Nisbet House is a 17th-century mansion in the
History
The
A square tower, with fine interior plasterwork, in the classical style of William Adam was added to the west end in 1774. The house remained with Ker descendants (latterly in the person of Lord Sinclair) until the 1950s, when the estate was sold to Lord Brocket. After partial modernisation, the house was sold again in the mid-1960s to a local farmer, and remained unoccupied until its recent and comprehensive restoration as a private residence.
Nisbet estate
The former estate contains a very small mill, an 18th-century U-plan stable range (now converted into homes), and a scattering of cottages and farmhouses. Dunse Spa, a source of mineral water in the 18th century, is just to the north of the Nisbet estate and the spa house still stands.
Gallery
Photographs of Nisbet House taken by Robert Chancellor Nesbit in the 1930s.
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East end of Nisbet House
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Gardens at Nisbet House
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Ploughing estate fields at Nisbet House
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Burial vault of Nisbet and Carre families
See also
References
Sources
- Croft, Kitty; Dunbar, John; Fawcett, Richard (2006). Borders. ISBN 978-0-300-10702-9.
- MacGibbon & Ross (1887). The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland(PDF).
- Nesbitt, Robert Chancellor (1994). Nisbet of that Ilk. Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-929-4.
- Strang, Charles A (1994). Borders and Berwick. Rutland Press. p. 43. ISBN 1-873190-10-7.