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Allanton's main street still stand a pair of splay-fronted lodges (Lydd Cottage and Westside Cottage), defining the entrance to the former Blackadder House. The farm of Blackadder Mains along with Blackadder Bank, Blackadder West and Blackadder Mount and the nearby village of Allanton were all
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the mansion was requisitioned by the government as accommodation for troops, who vandalised the building, using parts of the grand staircase bannisters for firewood. The post-war government refused to pay for the restitution of the house to its former state and with the agricultural depression it was
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The gardens suffered badly from the severe frosts of the winter of 1879-1880, when the temperature was measured at −23 °F (−31 °C). Peach trees that had been planted by Lady
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Blackadders thereafter relinquished their claim to the Borders lands, and Sir John Home was created Baronet of Blackadder in 1671. The Homes retained possession of the castle until 1836, when it was acquired by the Houston family, later Houston-Boswalls. In 1857 the owner was listed as Sir George
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in a land dispute. He was succeeded in the barony of
Tulliallan by his brother Patrick, who again renewed his dispute against the Homes for the family lands. Patrick went to meet the Homes to try to resolves their differences, but he was ambushed and murdered near Edinburgh, which Anderson attributed
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The garrison refused to surrender but the Homes succeeded in obtaining possession of the fortress, seized the widow and her children, compelling them to the marriage by force. In 1518, the two daughters were contracted to younger sons, John and Robert, and as they were only in their eighth year, they
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in 1513 and was slain along with two hundred gentlemen of that name on that disastrous field leaving a widow and two daughters, Beatrix and
Margaret, who at the time were mere children. From the unprotected state of Robert’s daughters, the Homes of Wedderburn formed a design of seizing the lands of
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While the house is gone, impressive ruins remain that make a walk through the estate worthwhile. Little remains of the house other than a folly walkway with stone balustrade which was at the back of the house below ground level, cut into the rock of a cliff face that overlooks the river
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An 1845 description highlighted the conservatory, which took the form of a Gothic chapel with a framework made entirely of cast iron, and with some of the glass panels stained. The conservatory had been erected by the late proprietor, Thomas
Boswall, at a cost of several thousand pounds. An 1848
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below. Where the house was, a wood was planted. Below the folly on the bank of the river the remains of the hydro electric power house is still visible (Blackadder House was reputedly the first in
Berwickshire to have electric lighting).
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Blackadder (which was sited somewhere on the land that is now Blackadder Mains and was destroyed in the early 16th century when the English, under the command of
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of that ilk were taken into the family of Home (now the Home
Robertson family) by the forced marriage of Beatrix and her younger sister, the only heirs of their father Robert, to younger sons of
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drew up plans which were carried out. In 1842 the house was described as an elegant modern edifice with extensive shrubberies and greenhouses and a beautiful Gothic conservatory.
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that had been planted the year Lady Boswall was born also died, as did many oaks. The frost killed Bay Laurels, Portugal Laurels, Rhododendrons, Hollies and other smaller trees.
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Other buildings built to service the estate remain. Blackadder Cottage (or the 'Butler's House') with an impressive pair of lions on the parapet, sits on a high bank above the
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style. The house was described as "The Home of the Stately Home". It was probably the first in Berwickshire to have electric power. The original power house survives.
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magazine article again mentioned the conservatory, which seems to have been the most notable feature of the house. The proprietor was given as Lady Houston.
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extended the house, ballastrading the terraces and adding a large asymmetrical wing. The result was a magnificent classical house built in
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