Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire
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2011
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Baronial |
| Location | Scottish Borders |
| Current tenants | Swintons of Kimmerghame |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | David Bryce |
 Location of Kimmerghame House in Scottish Borders
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| Coordinates | 55°45′23″N 2°17′41″W / 55.75639°N 2.29472°WCoordinates: 55°45′23″N 2°17′41″W / 55.75639°N 2.29472°W |
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Listed Building – Category B
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| Official name: Kimmerghame House with terrace and boundary walls, boar statues, garden seat, sundial, gates and gatepiers | |
| Designated | 9 October 1981 |
| Reference no. | 2133 |
| Official name: Kimmerghame House, stables | |
| Reference no. | 44503 |
| Designated | 30 June 2011 |
| Reference no. | 00239 |
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 seat of the Swintons of Kimmerghame, a branch of the Lowland Clan Swinton. The house was designed in the Scottish Baronial style by David Bryce in 1851. Kimmerghame is protected as a category B listed building.
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. 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. The present house is dated 1851, and was designed by David Bryce. It incorporates interior panelling from the earlier house.
Kimmerghame was partially destroyed by fire in 1938, and subsequently only partly rebuilt. The present occupant is Major-General Sir John Swinton KCVO OBE, former Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, and father of the actress Tilda Swinton.
Kimmerghame House before the fire of 1938
Kimmerghame on Fire
Kimmerghame Post Fire
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