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
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1979
- Type
- Tower house
- OS grid reference
- NT 540 154
- Coordinates
- 55.43082, -2.72751
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cavers House is a large five-storey tower house dating from around 1500, likely incorporating part of a 13th-century castle. The upper two floors were altered in the 17th century, and the tower was enlarged to the north in the mid-18th century, transforming it into a classical mansion with a symmetrical seven-bay front facing east and a three-window semi-circular advanced bow at the center. The house underwent substantial remodelling in the Scottish Baronial style between 1885 and 1887 by Kinnear and Peddie, who reduced the projecting bow to two storeys, added gabled attics to the tower and north wing, and constructed a large additional wing to the northwest. In 1953, this wing and part of the north wing were demolished, and the house was left unroofed. Inside, the 13th-century piscina, noted by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, remains intact.
Local climate
Cavers House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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