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Scottish Borders - Places to Visit - Mellerstain House

Mellerstain House, the home of the Earl and Countess of Haddington, is famous for it’s exquisite plaster ceilings and wonderful art collection.

Mellerstain House
Gordon
(A6089 Kelso-Gordon Road)
Scottish Borders
Tel: 01573 410225

12.30pm - 5pm (House)

11.30am - 5.30pm (Gardens & Tea room)

Visit Mellerstain House in Scottish Borders

Mellerstain House
Come and discover the story of Mellerstain for a day, and enjoy the fabulous paintings, embroidery, china and furniture collections, admire the classical perfection of Robert Adam's architecture and interior decoration, and be inspired by the friendly atmosphere and romantic location of one of Scotland's greatest Georgian houses.
History of llerstain lands to 1691 From the close of the twelfth century, the principal Mellerstain lands belonged to the de Haitley family.
Over the succeeding four and a half centuries, the properties changed hands numerous times among the notable Borders families, including the Haliburtons and Napiers, until, in 1642, they were made over by Royal Charter to George Baillie of Jerviswood, son of a prosperous merchant burgess of Edinburgh.

He lived in a tower house on the site of the present-day mansion. The times were not propitious for building. The Civil War was in progress when George Baillie died in 1646.
He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Robert, who came into conflict with the authorities. In 1676 he was imprisoned and fined £500 sterling (an immense sum in those days), for rescuing his brother-in-law from what he thought to be an illegal arrest. It was while he was incarcerated in the Edinburgh Tolbooth that Sir Patrick Hume, afterwards Earl of Marchmont, wishing to communicate with him, entrusted the dangerous mission to his eldest daughter Grisell, then a child of twelve.
Robert Baillie, as a staunch Covenanter, was strongly opposed to the policy of the Government, and in 1684 he was arrested for high treason and condemned to death.
His estate was forfeited, as was also that of Sir Patrick Hume. Sir Patrick and his family fled to Holland and were speedily followed by young George Baillie, penniless after his father's death.
He had already met the heroic little Grisell, and in exile the friendship ripened, although he had nothing yet to offer her but the pay of a junior officer in the Prince of Orange's Horse Guards.
Then, in 1688, came a dramatic change of fortune. The Prince of Orange set out on a journey which was to make him William III of England, and Sir Patrick Hume and George Baillie sailed with him. Both their estates were restored and in September 1691 and later Grisell Hume became Grisell Baillie.

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Rome wasn't built in a day, and the same can certainly be said of Mellerstain. Begun in 1725 and finally completed in 1778, this grand stately home has a fascinating history, and is of unique architectural interest as the result of a fruitful collaboration of successive generations of the Baillie and Adam families, as patrons and architects.
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