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Latitude: 55.3832 / 55°22'59"N
Longitude: -2.7738 / 2°46'25"W
OS Eastings: 351069
OS Northings: 610183
OS Grid: NT510101
Mapcode National: GBR 9626.UH
Mapcode Global: WH7XN.CYCK
Entry Name: Woodfoot Bridge,enclosure 430m NE of Pagton Burn
Scheduled Date: 31 December 1973
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3374
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: Cavers
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Hawick and Hermitage
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Dated 1767. Former parish manse on S facing, sloping site. Various later extensions form roughly cruciform plan. Harled rubble with contrasting painted margins and some tooled ashlar dressings.
1767: nucleus of house central S facing 2-storey, 3-bay block with small windows and centre door.
1833: 1767 manse probably raised to accommodate attic of 2 rooms lit by small windows below wallhead in outer bays only. Skewputt datestones at SE also raised and re-instated. New margined end stacks.
1870: major alterations (probably A & W Reid, Elgin); new projecting crowstepped S wing with ground floor dining room and 1st floor drawing room lit by full height tooled ashlar canted bay window in crowstepped and finialled front gable; square entrance porch in re-entrant angle with 2-pane fanlight to door and blocking course; dormer windows in S elevation raised to break wallhead and gabletted dormerheads added. Part of rear wing probably added.
1882-3 AND 1894: repairs and alterations, probably by A & W Reid, Elgin; 2-storey, 3-bay rear service wing completed in present form to accommodate new kitchen and 1st floor service bedrooms; tall and narrow border-glazed rear stair window. 12-pane glazing in timber sash windows in surviving (small) 1767 front windows; plate glass and 4-pane elsewhere. Coped end and wallhead chimney stacks; slate roof. Coped skews.
INTERIOR: large front dining and drawing rooms with plain plaster cornices; late 19th century staircase to 1st floor; inserted stair, probably 1833, leads from 1st floor to attic. ?1833 coombed ceiling to 2 front attic rooms with simple plaster cornices.
REAR SERVICE COTTAGE: probably early 19th century. 2-storey, 2-bay cottage perhaps incorporating former stable. Harled, painted margins. Long elevations E and W; door and flanking window in E elevation (facing service court and rear entrance to manse service wing); small 1st floor windows. Mainly 12-pane glazing; single end chimney stack; asbestos tiled roof.
GARDEN WALLS: coped rubble garden wall divides garden from road N and E.
GATES AND GATEPIERS: to rear. Low coped wall leading to square-section, pyramidal capped piers. 2-leaf iron gates.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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