Carolside, Scottish Borders

The late-18th-century house is a category B listed building,^[1] and is set in a former deer park. It was based on a design for Chesterfield House, Mayfair, London by the architect Isaac Ware.^[2] The drawing room contains a fireplace designed by Pietro Bossi, taken from Baronscourt, County Tyrone, around 1948.^{[citation needed]}

The walled gardens include a national collection of pre-1900 Gallica roses, and are open to the public in July each year, as part of the Scotland's Gardens scheme.^[3] The grounds of the site are 366 acres (148 ha) in size with a wide variety of trees, some oak and chestnuts being over 200 years old.^[4]

Also on the estate is Park Bridge, a balustraded arch bridge linking the policies of Carolside House and those of Leadervale on the other side of the Leader.^[5] The bridge dates to the late 18th century, and has been compared with other bridges designed by Alexander Stevens and William Elliot.^[6]

• List of places in the Scottish Borders

• Forman, S (1955). "Carolside House". Scottish Field. 103 (630): 38–39.
• Indexes to the Services of Heirs in Scotland, Edinburgh 1863, gives a time of death for James Lauder of Carolside, Berwickshire, and Whitslaid, Selkirkshire, as January 1799.