Cavers House

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.