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Blackadder House
Blackadder House was a 19th-century stately house on the Blackadder estate near Allanton in Berwickshire, built on the site of an earlier castle and remodelled and extended in the mid-1800s. The house was requisitioned during World War I, vandalised, and demolished around 1925; several estate outbuildings and garden features survive today.
Its prime
1853
Today
Demolished
As it stood in 1853
The shape it held in its prime.
A large mid-19th-century Palladian-derived mansion of pale ashlar stone with an asymmetrical multi-storey massing: rectangular main block with projecting bays and a later wing, numerous tall chimneys, a low parapet or balustraded roofline, and terraced balustraded lawns stepping down the slope. A Gothic cast-iron conservatory resembling a small chapel adjoined one side. The house sat on a wooded cliff above the river, with arched lower loggia openings at the terrace level and extensive shrubberies in the surrounding park.
Its story
The story of Blackadder House.
Blackadder House stood on the site of the earlier Blackadder Castle near Allanton in Berwickshire. The Blackadder family were an integral part of the constant Borders feuds, extending their lands through grants from James II as reward for repelling English raids. In 1482 the Duke of Gloucester — the future Richard III — came to Blackadder, and his ally the Duke of Albany ordered the 'great house and tower' destroyed.
In 1518 the estate was taken into the family of Home by the forced marriage of Beatrix and her younger sister, their father Robert's only heirs, to younger sons of Home of Wedderburn — a possession disputed for years by their Blackadder cousins of Tulliallan. Margaret Tudor had come to Blackadder in September 1515 on her escape to England. The Homes held the estate until 1836, when it was acquired by the Houston family, later Houston-Boswalls.
The 19th-century house, remodelled and extended in the mid-1800s and once described as 'The Home of the Stately Home', was requisitioned in the First World War and vandalised by troops. With no money for repairs it was demolished around 1925; estate outbuildings and garden features survive.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1853.
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Clans who held Blackadder House.
The families that held Blackadder House for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Blackadder
Held by the Blackadder family, their lands extended by grants from James II, until 1518.
Home
Held by the Homes of Wedderburn from the forced marriages of 1518 until 1836.
Houston
Acquired by the Houston family, later Houston-Boswalls, in 1836.
