What is recorded here

Bemersyde House stands in Roxburghshire as a medieval tower house later improved into an 18th-century country home, still marked by a 16th-century armorial panel and a 20th-century war memorial. The British Government bought it in 1921 and gave it to Field-Marshal The 1st Earl Haig, making it the seat of the chief of Clan Haig. Its motto, Tyde what may, answers an old prediction that Haig shall remain Haig of Bemersyde, as if the house itself had sworn to keep naming itself through every changing age.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bemersyde House as Armorial Panel (16th Century), Country House (18th Century), Tower House (medieval), War Memorial (20th 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.

Bemersyde House, originally a medieval tower house, was later expanded into a country house in the 18th century; it is remembered for its historical evolution and as a site associated with local and national heritage in Scotland.

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