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English: Cawderstanes (house) viewed, bathed in the evening light of a late November afternoon, from a spot on the West bank of the River Whiteadder ( pronounced ‘WIT-adder’ ) near its confluence with the Wall Mire stream. Cawderstanes is a fine, large house built in 1892 by a Mr Edward Grey in a secluded and commanding position on a steep ( 45m ) bluff on the East bank of the Whiteadder. Edward Grey’s builders were almost certainly responsible for repurposing/cannibalising a large amount of stone from the ruins of nearby Edrington Castle in the construction of Cawderstanes.
Edrington Castle was (according to 'The Border Line' by James Logan Mack, Edinburgh, 1924) 'one of the earliest border strongholds' probably built by the Scots to watch the English castle of Norham on the south bank of the Tweed. Edrington Castle was held by the Lauders of Bass for nearly 300 years. At the time of the construction of Cawderstanes in 1892 it had declined to such an extent that it could be described as 'A mere fragment of an ancient castle on the rocky bank of the Whitadder, 5 miles N.W. of Berwick : a place of some importance in the Border wars, it continued, till the close of the 18th century, four stories in height.' |
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