Scottish Borders Architecture, Castles, Historic Buildings in southern Scotland

Scottish Borders Buildings

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post updated 3 March 2022

Scottish Borders Building News

Scottish Borders Buildings

3 Mar 2022
The Beekeeper’s House in Roxburgh, Roxburgh – near Kelso
Design: Zone Architects

photograph : Paul Zanre
The Beekeeper’s House, Roxburgh,
This house was commissioned by Kate Atchley, a keen beekeeper and interfaith minister. She searched for and found a south facing plot looking over the Teviot on the edge of a quiet village in the Scottish Borders, near Kelso.

25 Nov 2015
The Mill, Scottish Borders Steading
Design: WT Architecture, Architects

photograph © Andrew Lee
The Mill, Scottish Borders House
Borders Steading is collection of disused farm buildings that nestles into a steep hill overlooking a valley in the Scottish Borders. The brief was to convert the mill to create a modern, rural holiday home that retained much of its historic character.

23 Mar 2018
Scottish Borders Building Design Awards 2018 News

Scottish Borders Building Design Awards 2018
The search is on again for the best designed new buildings in the Borders, with the launch of the Borders Building Design Awards 2018.
The awards intend to promote good building design in the Borders and to strengthen links between builders, architects, Council plannes and other professionals in the industry.

12 Jun 2013
Abbotsford House Visitor Centre, Melrose
Design: LDN Architects

photograph © Paul Zanre
Abbotsford House Visitor Centre

20 Jun 2012
Soccer Pitch in Selkirk Forest
Design: Gareth Hoskins Architects

photo : Angie Catlin
Selkirk Forest Pitch
Brothers Chris and John Houston – both renowned for their rugby – are playing a vital role in the Forest Pitch arts and soccer project which is one of Scotland’s main contributions to the Cultural Olympiad. Their recently established Jedburgh-based company, Caledonia Log Homes Ltd., has built the striking log shelter at the football ground, which has been cut from the heart of a Selkirk spruce wood.

29 Aug 2011
Dean Cottage – Private House near Eddleston, Black Barony, Peeblesshire
Design: ICOSIS Architects

image from Saltire Awards
Eddleston House
Saltire Society Housing Design Awards Guest Chairman Malcolm Fraser has announced a diverse awards shortlist for 2011, with the scheme enjoying another year of encouraging submission numbers.

17 Oct 2011
Ettrick Valley House
Design: Reiach and Hall Architects, Edinburgh

photo © Reiach and Hall Architects
Ettrick Valley House
Gold award for Low cost building of the year, given to the Weavers Cottage in the Ettrick Valley

photos added 7 May 2012
Fairydean Stadium, Galashiels, Scottish Borders
Date built: 1965
Design: Peter Womersley Architect

photo © Adrian Welch
Scottish Borders Stadium Building
This building is designed in a similar architecture style to Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. The raw shuttering of the concrete, the powerful angular forms and the focus on cantilever and buttresses in tension are dominant. The building was controversially listed by Historic Scotland in late 2006.

Scottish Borders Architecture

Photos from 15 Jan 2012:

Hume Castle, near Greenlaw, Berwickshire
Date built: 12th/13th Century

photographs © Adrian Welch

Smailholm Tower, near Kelso, Roxburghshire
Date built: 15th/16th Century

photographs © Isabelle Lomholt

photographs © Isabelle Lomholt

photographs © Adrian Welch

Greenlaw Town Hall
Date built: 1831 ; building restored in 2010
Status: Listed building
was a Building at Risk since 2001
One of the buildings shortlisted in the 2006 BBC television series Restoration Village.

photographs © Niels Lomholt

Kelso Abbey
Date built: founded in the 12th century

photographs © Adrian Welch

Kelso Building in the town square

photograph © AJW

Kelso Hotel Building, on the north side of the square

photograph © AW

Mellerstain House

photograph © IL

Bridge & Folly at St Boswells
Suspension Footbridge over the River Tweed, just north west of Dryburgh Abbey

photograph © Adrian Welch

Folly at St Boswells

photograph © AW

Floors Castle – eastern entry gates, Kelso

photograph © IL

Historic Scottish Borders Buildings

Photos from previously:

Neidpath Castle just west of Peebles in the Scottish Borders:

images © AJW

Hume Castle

scanned photo by architect Adrian Welch 1999

Scottish Borders 20th Century Buildings – Selection

Bernat Klein Studio – project, Selkirk
Date: 2002-
Peter Womersley ; Studio DuB

photo : Rebecca Wober
Klein Studio : house, by architect Peter Womersley