Dawyck House is a

historic house A historic house generally meets several criteria before being listed by an official body as "historic." Generally the building is at least a certain age, depending on the rules for the individual list. A second factor is that the building be in ...

at Dawyck, in the parish of Drumelzier in the former

Peeblesshire Peeblesshire ( gd, Siorrachd nam Pùballan), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lan ...

, in the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders ( sco, the Mairches, 'the Marches'; gd, Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lothi ...

area of

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. The alternative name is 'Dalwick House'. Canmore ID 49816. Dawyck Castle was built about the Thirteenth century and belonged to the Veitch family until the mid Sixteenth century when the estate and barony passed to the Balfours. Dawyck was demolished in 1830 and the Dawyck House mansion was erected on the same footprint. The current house has been protected as a Category B listed building since 23 February 1971 and the grounds were added to the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland in 1987. Dawyck (together with

Stobo Castle Stobo Castle is located at Stobo in the Scottish Borders, in the former county of Peeblesshire. The Manor of Stobo was originally owned by the Balfour family. It became the family seat of the Graham-Montgomery Baronets from 1767. The buildin ...

) were the first Scottish sites to introduce the non-native species of

horse chestnut The genus ''Aesculus'' ( or ), with species called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae. They are trees and shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with six species n ...

in 1650.Scottish Garden Buildings by Tim Buxbaum p.11 The grounds of the house are now operated as

Dawyck Botanic Garden Dawyck Botanic Garden is a botanic garden and arboretum covering at Stobo on the B712, south of Peebles in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, OS ref. NT168352. The garden is situated in the Upper Tweed Valley, a National Scenic Area. D ...

, a "regional garden" of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Dawyck Chapel Dawyck Chapel, also known as Dalwick Church, is located (NGR NT 16798 34933) within the Parish of Drumelzier in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. The chapel lies within the Dawyck Botanic Gardens, an outstation or "regional garden" of the Roy ...

is in the grounds of the botanic garden.

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RCAHMS record for Dawyck HouseRCAHMS record for Dalwick House, PoliciesRCAHMS record for Dalwick House, Kitchen GardenRCAHMS record for Dalwick House, Formal GardenRCAHMS record for Dalwick House North Lodge and GatewaySCRAN image: Dawyck House Stobo PeeblesshireFlickr image of Dawyck HouseBritish Listed Buildings: Dawyck House, DrumelzierDictionary of Scottish Architects: William Burn, 1789-1870Virtual Tenby
Houses in the Scottish Borders Category B listed buildings in the Scottish Borders Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes {{Scotland-struct-stub

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