What is recorded here

Woodfoot Lodge still stands beside Stobs Castle in the Scottish Borders, a post-medieval gate lodge with matching piers that marked the entrance to a grand estate. The stone piers frame the road like a threshold between ordinary travel and private land, inviting imagination about the coaches, servants and visitors who passed through. Whether the lodge controlled access or simply decorated it, the gates and building remain a clear sign that this place was designed to be seen, judged and remembered.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Stobs Castle, Woodfoot Lodge and Gate Piers as Gate Lodge (post Medieval), Gate Pier(s) (post Medieval). 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 a 16th-century tower house built by the Stobbs or Stobs family, a prominent local landholding family in the Borders region of Scotland. It is remembered for its historical association with Border Reivers and its strategic position near the English border.

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