
What is recorded here
Stobs Castle stands in the Scottish Borders as an 18th-century country house that later became officers' quarters during the first World War. The building carries both pleasures and horrors, domestic ease and the sharp edge of military life. Its rooms may have held laughter, conversation and quiet pride before they held the exhaustion and tension of young men waiting for orders. The transition from country house to wartime quarters suggests a place that adapted to human need, beauty and suffering alike.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Stobs Castle as Country House (18th Century), Officers Quarters (first World War). 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.
Stobs Castle was originally built in the 18th century as a country house and later used as officers' quarters during the First World War. It is remembered for its military use and as a listed historic site in the Scottish Borders.
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Photo: Jim Barton · CC BY-SA 2.0