Blackshiels, Fala is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971.
Blackshiels, Fala
- WRENN ID
- over-column-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blackshiels is a 17th-century building, originally a coaching inn, now a farmhouse. It is a one-and-a-half-storey structure with a low ground floor, constructed from rubble stone and featuring a skew-gabled roof covered in slate. Dormer windows are present, and a 19th-century addition projects from the west end, also with a corbie-step-gabled roof.
To the north are offices arranged around a courtyard, similarly built as one-and-a-half storeys, and featuring an elliptical archway to a passage.
Historically, Blackshiels served as the first stagecoach stop from Edinburgh on the road to Kelso. The renowned travellers James Boswell and Samuel Johnson stayed at the inn on 23rd November 1772, towards the end of their tour. Travel increased with the opening of the turnpike road to Lauder in 1834. Later additions to the building were constructed using stone taken from Fala House, built around 1745. The inn closed circa 1880.
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