Kimmerghame House
Kimmerghame House is a 19th-century mansion in the Scottish Borders, located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south-east of Duns by the Blackadder Water. It is the home of the Swintons of Kimmerghame. The house was designed in the Scottish Baronial style by David Bryce in 1851.[1] Kimmerghame is protected as a category B listed building.[2]
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History
Kimmerghame was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. An inventory of the house and its furnishing survives from this period.[3] This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s. William Burn had produced designs for a new house in 1825, although nothing was done at the time.[2] The present house is dated 1851, and was designed by David Bryce. It incorporates interior panelling from the earlier house.[2]
Kimmerghame was partially destroyed by fire in 1938, and subsequently only partly rebuilt.[4] The present occupant is Major-General Sir John Swinton KCVO OBE, former Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire,[5] and father of the actress Tilda Swinton.[6]
See also
- Kimmerghame House is also the name of a boys' boarding house at Fettes College, Edinburgh.
- List of places in the Scottish Borders
References
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