Nisbet House
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Nisbet House is a substantial baronial style mansion in Nisbet, Berwickshire, Scotland. It was built in about 1630 by Sir Alexander Nisbet, ancestor of Alexander Nisbet the Herald. Architectural evidence suggests that the building incorporates, at its eastern end, a square pele tower that was the former house.
Sir Alexander Nisbet overextended his finances in supporting Charles I in the Civil War, and was forced to sell the property to John Ker in 1652. A square tower in the classical style of William Adam 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 were sold to Lord Brockett. After partial modernisation, the house was sold again in the mid-1960s to a local farmer, and remained unoccupied until its recent and comprehensive restoration as a private residence.
 East end of Nisbet House |
 Gardens at Nisbet House |
 Ploughing estate fields at Nisbet House |
 Burial vault of Nisbet and Carre families |
[edit] Sources
- Nesbitt, Robert Chancellor (1994). Nisbet of that Ilk. Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-929-4.
- Croft, Kitty; Dunbar, John; Fawcett, Richard (2006). The Buildings of Scotland. Borders. Yale. ISBN 978-0300107029.
- MacGibbon & Ross (1887)
- The Nesbitt/Nisbet Society Website — United Kingdom
- The Nesbitt-Nisbet Society Website — North America
