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Nisbet House
Nisbet House is a 17th-century Scottish country house in the Merse, built around 1630 and incorporating an earlier square pele tower. A square tower in the classical style was added to the west end in 1774; the building and estate remain a private residence and are protected as a category A listed building.
Its prime
1774
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1774
The shape it held in its prime.
Long two-storey ashlar stone mansion set in low-lying farmland on the north bank of the Blackadder Water, with a taller square west tower rising above the main block. Regular vertical sash windows punctuate the facades; the west tower has classical proportions and a plain stone parapet. The eastern end incorporates an older, squatter pele-tower core. The house is approached across open fields and stands behind a belt of mature deciduous trees.
Its story
The story of Nisbet House.
The Nisbet family built two fortified houses or pele towers in the Merse in the 12th century, East Nisbet and West Nisbet; the eastern tower, now Allanbank, is gone, but Wester Nisbet survives at the east end of the present house. Sir Alexander Nisbet of that Ilk (c. 1580–1660) extended it in the 1630s to form the bulk of today's mansion, but overextended his finances supporting Charles I in the Civil War and was forced to sell to John Ker in 1652.
George Carre, Lord Nisbet, son of John Ker by his second wife, was born here around 1700. A square tower in the classical style of William Adam, with fine interior plasterwork, was added to the west end in 1774. The house remained with Ker descendants — latterly in the person of Lord Sinclair — until the 1950s, when the estate was sold to Lord Brocket. It is protected as a category A listed building.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1774.
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Clans who held Nisbet House.
The families that held Nisbet House for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Nisbet
The Nisbets held the site from their 12th-century pele tower until Sir Alexander Nisbet, ruined by supporting Charles I in the Civil War, sold to John Ker in 1652.
Ker
John Ker bought Nisbet in 1652, and his descendants — latterly Lord Sinclair — kept the house until the estate was sold to Lord Brocket in the 1950s.
