Nisbet, Scottish Borders
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Nisbet is an 17th century country house in Berwickshire, now part of the Scottish Borders region.
There was a very early Pele Tower and moat here, which was demolished and cleared to make way for the present house, a four-storey Scots baronial building of 1630, with a great tower addition of 1774, making no real concession to context: Venetian windows, Gibbsian corners, and wonderful plasterwork. There is a 19th century red-brick walled garden to the east.
It is on the north side of the Blackadder Water, a mile south of Duns. Nisbet is sometimes known as West Nisbet. As well as Nisbet House, the former estate contains a very small mill, and 18th century U-plan stab;e range (now converted into homes) and the usual scattering of cottages and farmhouses.
Dunse Spa, once a source of mineral water in the 18th century, stood just to the north of the Nisbet estate. The Spa house still stands.
East Nisbet was a separate place, also on the Blackadder but about four miles to the east. Its name changed in the 18th century to Elmbank, and then to Allenbank.
[edit] See also
Battle of Nesbit Moor (1402)
[edit] Sources
- Borders and Berwick, by Charles A Strang, Rutland Press, 1994, p.43. ISBN 1-873190-10-7
Nesbitt, Robert Chancellor (1994). Nisbet of that Ilk. Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-929-4.
