Historic houses · Central Scotland
High Sunderland, Including Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Galashiels
High Sunderland, Including Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Galashiels — house in Galashiels, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Galashiels · 5.2 km
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
High Sunderland, Including Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Galashiels is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Heritage designation: category A listed building. Wikidata describes it as: "house in Galashiels, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK". Coordinates: 55.5743°, -2.8367°.
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From the Wikipedia article
High Sunderland is a Modernist house built in woodland in the grounds of the 19th-century Sunderland Hall, between Selkirk and Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. It was designed in 1957 by Peter Womersley for the textile artist Bernat Klein and his wife Peggy, and completed in 1958. The interior was decorated with exotic woods, and with fabrics specially designed by Klein. The house, with its clear and coloured panes of glass within a wooden structure, and its woodland setting, has been described as like "a Mondrian set within a Klimt". Womersley designed a separate studio for Klein in 1969, which was completed near the house in 1972. The strong horizontal and vertical concrete structure of the studio are reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. The house and the studio, two largely unaltered examples of Womersley's modular Modernist architecture, are separately listed in Category A, as "buildings of national or international importance".
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Background
History
The house was commissioned in 1956, after Klein and his wife saw the Modernist Farnley Hey, designed by Womersley and built in 1954 south of Huddersfield. Farnley Hey was awarded a RIBA bronze medal: it was given as a wedding present to Womersley's brother John, and is now listed at Grade II. Klein admired its rough stone walls and large windows, although the stone elements were omitted at High Sunderland to reduce costs. Its modular design has been described as a forerunner to Benjamin's Mount, a 1967 house by Ernő Goldfinger in Windlesham and now Grade II* listed. The single-storey house was designed for a woodland site that Klein had acquired in the grounds of Sunderland Hall, an 1850…
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- Coordinates
- 55.5743, -2.8367
- District
- Scottish Borders
- Postcode
- TD1 3PL
- Parliamentary constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
- Nearest railway station
- Galashiels — 5.2 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q17567901 (CC0)
- wikipedia: High Sunderland (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: High Sunderland.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is High Sunderland, Including Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Galashiels?
- High Sunderland, Including Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Galashiels is in central Scotland, United Kingdom (postcode TD1 3PL).
- Is High Sunderland, Including Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Galashiels a listed building?
- High Sunderland, Including Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Galashiels is officially recognised as category A listed building listed.
- How do I get to High Sunderland, Including Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Galashiels?
- The nearest railway station is Galashiels, about 5.2 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode TD1 3PL.