Bridge Over Kill Burn, The Glen

Heritage listing

Category C Group Category Details 100000019 - (see NOTES) Date Added 12/08/2003 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Traquair NGR NT 29651 33110 Coordinates 329651, 633110 — Early-mid 19th century. Single arch span, plain classical bridge with pilastered piers and string course defining parapet. Coursed and snecked local whinstone with ashlar band courses, coping and caps; lime mortared. SE AND NW ELEVATIONS: main body of bridge divided into 3 pilastered sections, central section containing round-arch span with rough whinstone voussoirs, outer sections plain and blind save for string course at base of parapet; curved wing walls to NE and SW; plain flat coping to all, punctuated by slightly raised pyramidal caps to pilastered piers. Later tarmacadam road surface. — Part of an A-Group with all other Glen estate buildings. Sited near the centre of the estate and spanning the Kill Burn. The Glen estate can be traced as far back as 1296 when Sarra of the Glen swore allegiance to King Edward I of England. The estate remained in the family's hand until around 1512, when the grounds became fragmented and parts were sold to neighbouring landowners and families. By the 1700's, there were 2 main parts of the estate, Easter and Wester Glen. Easter Glen was sold to Alexander Allan (an Edinburgh banker) in 1796 for #10,500. At this point, the house was a fairly small plain farmhouse. His son, William Allan (Lord Provost of Edinburgh) was responsible for enlarging and extending the house, the architect being his friend William Playfair (see The Temple, listed separately); even after improvement it was still not regarded as being fit for a landowner's principal residence. Allan also started landscape improvements and may have been responsible for

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.