Cavers House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 August 1979. Tower house. 2 related planning applications.
Cavers House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-threshold-falcon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1979
- Type
- Tower house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1500 large 5 storey tower house, probably incorporating
part of a 13th century castle. Upper two floors altered in
17th century and the tower enlarged to the North in the mid
18th century to form a classical mansion house with
symmetrical 7 bay front to east with a 3 window semi-circular
advanced bow at centre. Substantially re-modelled in the
Scottish Baronial style in 1885-7 by Kinnear and Peddie who
reduced the projecting bow to 2 storeys and added gabled
attics to the Tower and north wing and a large additional
wing to the NW. This wing and part of the North wing
demolished in 1953 and the house unroofed.
Interior: the 13th century piscina noted by the RCAHMS
survives intact.
Detailed Attributes
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