What is recorded here

Bassendean House layers a medieval tower beneath a nineteenth-century country wing, while a sundial from 1690 still marks the passing of days. The building has watched the Scottish Borders change from defensive necessity to domestic comfort, yet the old stone tower remains the heart of the place. A person walking past may imagine knights in the chamber and gentlemen in the drawing room, both lives overlapping in the same walls.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bassendean House as Country House (19th Century), Sundial (late 17th Century) (1690)-(1690), Tower House (medieval) - (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Bassendean House was originally a medieval tower house, later expanded into a country house in the 19th century; it is remembered for its late 17th-century sundial and long-standing presence in the Scottish landscape.

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