Ivy Bridge, Glenormiston House

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 10/03/2003 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Innerleithen NGR NT 31416 37811 Coordinates 331416, 637811 — Circa 1852 for William Chambers. Single span, classical style pilastered bridge. Squared and coursed local whinstone with pink sandstone voussoirs, band course and moulded parapet copes. N & S ELEVATIONS: round arched span with droved pink sandstone voussoirs and blind spandrels, square piers to flanks of arch and as terminating piers, all with sandstone band course; moulded stone coping to parapet wall with matching square moulded copes to higher pier heads. Carries tarmacadamed vehicle driveway. — The original Glenormiston, a mansion that was the principal building on the estate until it was demolished in 1956. The smaller farmhouse, further up the hill at the rear of the site, has been adapted to form the principal dwelling, and taken over the name. The whole estate was formerly known as 'Wormiston' and 'Ormiston'; it belonged to the seventh Earl of Traquair, whose trustees sold it for £8400 to John Scott, writer to the Signet. Scott improved the land dramatically, extending cultivation and planting larch belts. His heirs sold it in 1805 to William Hunter (farmer, Liberton Grange near Edinburgh) for £9910 who renamed the estate "Glenormiston". He continued to fashion fields, raise plantations and build the farm steading and the now demolished mansion. After Hunter's death, the estate was sold for £24,000 to William Steuart who again continued improving the estate, spending £10,000 on works. More land was drained, pavilion wings added to the mansion house and gardens laid out. William Chambers bought the estate in 1849 for £25,500 and created a new entrance to the property with its own lodge. He was a

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.