Scotland · Restored
Hutton Castle
Hutton Castle is a historic country house-style castle in the Scottish Borders overlooking the Whiteadder Water, originally built in the 16th century and later altered and expanded. It was owned and lived in by Sir William Burrell in the 20th century and was restored as a private dwelling in the late 1990s; it is a category B listed building.
Its prime
1927
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1927
What Hutton Castle looked like in its prime.
Perched on a wooded ridge above the valley, the castle presents a multi-storey rectangular stone main block of grey-brown masonry with several chimneys and slate roofs. A lower gabled wing adjoins one side and a short cylindrical, crenellated tower rises near the centre of the composition. Windows are regularly spaced vertical openings; the building sits above treed slopes with no visible outer curtain wall, fully roofed and occupied at its prime.
Its story
The story of Hutton Castle.
The Homes of Wedderburn and the Rough Wooing, 1544-1588
Hutton stands above the Whiteadder Water in the Scottish Borders, 2.5 kilometres south-east of Chirnside and 11 kilometres west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and has also been known as Hatton Hall and Hutton Hall. It was originally a property of the Homes of Wedderburn, probably built in the 16th century, though it may take in much older fabric.
In September 1544, during the war of the Rough Wooing, Hutton Hall was attacked by Harry Eure, son of Lord Eure. In July 1588 the English diplomat Robert Bowes organised a meeting at Hutton Hall to deliver 2,000 pounds in gold to Sir John Carmichael, a subsidy paid to James VI of Scotland.
From the Johnstons of Hilton to Lord Tweedmouth
The house was the seat of the Johnstons of Hilton from about 1620 until the early 19th century. From 1876 it belonged to Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth. By the late 19th century it stood partly ruinous.
Sir William Burrell at Hutton, 1916-1958
Sir William Burrell, the wealthy Glaswegian shipping merchant and art collector, bought Hutton in 1916. He commissioned Robert Lorimer to prepare designs for restoring and enlarging the building, but the two men failed to agree on the proposals. In 1926 the north wing was built to designs by Reginald Fairlie. Burrell moved in the following year and lived at Hutton with his art collection until his death in 1958.
Replica Rooms and an Empty House, 1944-1990s
Burrell and his wife Constance gifted their collection to the city of Glasgow in 1944, stipulating among other things that several of the rooms at Hutton Castle should be recreated for the display of the artefacts. When the Burrell Collection building in Glasgow's Pollok Park was completed in 1983, replicas of the castle's dining room, drawing room and hall were installed there, based on photographs and detail surveys carried out by Draughting Associates about a decade earlier.
Hutton Castle itself remained unoccupied. It has been a category B listed building since 1971, and was once again restored as a dwelling in the late 1990s.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1927.
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Clans who held Hutton Castle.
The families that held Hutton Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Seat of the Johnstons of Hilton from c.1620 until the early 19th century.
Marjoribanks
Owned from 1876 by Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth.
Burrell
Owned and lived in by Sir William Burrell in the 20th century.
