Trimontium Stone Summerhouse at Drygrange Traditional Cache
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Trimontium Stone Summerhouse at Drygrange
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Trimontium Stone Summerhouse at Drygrange
In the front field of the Nursing home, Grange Hall, on the north bank of the Leader Water at Leaderfoot, there is an Edwardian Summerhouse built of all sorts of marked Roman stones from the nearby huge 1st/2nd century fort of Trimontium
The story is that in 1908, Mr Roberts, the Edwardian owner of what was Drygrange House took 40 cartloads of stone from the 1st/2nd Century Trimontium Roman Fort nearby and had them built into a summer house.
The inside is still lined with fumed oak, surrounding selected 16th/17th century stones built into the Roman walls, and furnished with two little wrought iron gates.
What may be a Victorian "Folly", is in fact the only surviving built collection of Roman Trimontium stones that one can see above ground today.
The three 'pillars' that face you have a Roman stone 'basin' or a Roman drain at your waist level; the niche above the middle 'pillar' is filled with a Victorian fumerary urn and the walls are totally made of bits and pieces of Roman masonry and stonework. (Not something that Historic Scotland would encourage today)
A Trust has consolidated the roof, put some slabbing - and a fence with a gate - round the outside, so that folk could have a good look at these intriguing stones; and lately erected sliding doors to protect the inside. The approach to the building is to be made easier by a path round the Hall.
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