Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland
Criteria
Work of Art Architectural
Designated
1 July 1987
Reference no.
GDL00284
Location of Mertoun House in the Scottish Borders
Mertoun House is a country house situated by the River Tweed, 2 miles (3 kilometres) east of St Boswells in the Scottish Borders. It is home to the Duke of Sutherland. The early 18th-century house is an A listed building, and was designed by Sir William Bruce.[1] The gardens of the house are open to the public, and are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.[2]
^Historic Environment Scotland. "MERTOUN HOUSE (Category A Listed Building) (LB15110)". Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^Historic Environment Scotland. "MERTOUN (GDL00284)". Retrieved 2 January 2019.
MertounHouse is a country house situated by the River Tweed, 2 miles (3 kilometres) east of St Boswells in the Scottish Borders. It is home to the Duke...
sites of Dryburgh Abbey, MertounHouse, Mertoun Bridge and Bemersyde House. Also the statue of William Wallace at Bemersyde. Mertoun Church was erected in...
residence was Stafford House, which was rated as the most valuable private residence in London. The duke's current seat is at MertounHouse in St. Boswells,...
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Commission. The River Tweed at Abbotsford, near Melrose The River Tweed from MertounHouse, near St Boswells The Anglo-Scottish border, with the Tweed on the east...
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Encyclopaedia "Baronage – Registry of Scots Nobility". Retrieved 3 November 2022. National Trust for Scotland Historic Scotland Historic Houses Association...
situ, but on loan to galleries, such as the 7th Duke of Sutherland of MertounHouse who sold Titian’s Diana and Actaeon for £50m in 2008 and Diana and Callisto...
Baronet of Greenock (1702) MertounHouse with Bruce (1703) Dumfries Town Hall (1705) Hopetoun House with Bruce Duke of Montrose's house, Drygate, Glasgow (1708)...
Mains or Clintmains CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Mertoun Mill, or Caud Stream Historic Scotland: MertounHouse and Gardens Scottish Borders Council: Melrose...
The Dowie Dens o Yarrow. In the 18th century the family moved to Mertoun; the house was used as a farmhouse. It was restored and reoccupied during the...
Bemersyde is a hamlet in the Mertoun parish of Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. It sits on the left bank of the River Tweed, about three miles east...
district, and the parishes of Channelkirk, Earlston, Lauder, Legerwood, and Mertoun, which went to Ettrick and Lauderdale district. The Berwickshire lieutenancy...
Darnick who also sculpted the William Wallace Statue at Bemersyde House near Dryburgh. Mertoun Bridge was built to replace the old ford across the river, and...
the south by the river Tweed. It is bounded on the west by the parish of Mertoun in Berwickshire, on the north by the parish of Smailholm, on the east by...
Bridge Scottish Highlands Sutherland c. 1834 Cat B spans the River Laxford Mertoun Bridge Scottish Borders St Boswells 1873 spans the River Tweed Millhousebridge...
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1837 – via Internet Archive. Journal of the House of Commons. Vol. 92. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 3–671...
Arms designed for carrying in warfare or tournaments, but now flown as a "house flag" when the Armiger is in residence and is NOT the flag of the Clan or...
accompanying waters; the fishings from Berwick; the churches with their lands at Mertoun and Channelkirk in his lordship of Lauderdale and Asby in Westmoreland;...
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