Hutton Castle

Not to be confused with Sheriff Hutton Castle in North Yorkshire

Hutton Castle is a castle in the Scottish Borders, overlooking the Whiteadder Water near Berwick-on-Tweed.

Originally a property of the Homes of Wedderburn, from 1876 the castle was owned by Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth. His descendants owned it until it was purchased in 1916 by Sir William Burrell, a Glaswegian shipping merchant who lived there until his death in 1958. When Burrell bequeathed his art collection to the Glasgow Corporation in 1944, he agreed that his "Burrell Collection" would be displayed in the dining room, the drawing room and the hall of the castle. Since 1983, the collection, consisting of over 8,000 items, has been displayed in reconstructions of the Hutton Castle rooms in a brick building in Pollok Country Park, Glasgow.[1]

The hall retains much of its original medieval stonework and stained glass. The dining room contains a large oak refectory table dated 1581 and a number of English chairs dating from 1650 to 1715.[2] It also has numerous Persian rugs and French and Swiss tapestries.

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