Kelso, Grove Hill
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kelso, Grove Hill
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 95945
Site Number NT73SW 168
NGR NT 72745 34220
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/95945
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Kelso
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
Grove House, or Grovehill, appears to have been built some time between 1852 and 1860, and was probably demolished to make way for the area of housing known today as Grovehill.
According to the first edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of Roxburghshire (1860), Grove House stood within its own grounds, much of which appears to have been wooded. At this time, the house is shown as being situated at the end of a long driveway which had a lodge at the junction with what is now Edenside Road. Several buildings are shown to the rear of Grove House, arranged along one side of a rectangular courtyard. This courtyard appears to have been covered over by the time the second edition 6-inch map of Roxburghshire (1898) was published.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
NT73SW 168 72745 34220
Depicted in the 1st edition of the 6-inch O.S. map (Roxburghshire, 1862-3, sheet IX).
Information from RCAHMS (AR 10-APRIL 2000).
NMRS REFERENCE:
Seat of Chas. Robson solicitor at Kelso c. 1850-70.
See also Craighoil, Argyllshire.
RXD/339/1-3 have details of ownership of surrounding propietors.