Turret House

About Turret House

This is built on the site of a single storey house belonging to “John Palmer, boatman in Kelso". The house was rebuilt in 1694 when two floors were added for James Kirkwood, schoolmaster of Kelso Grammar School. Turret House changed hands in 1759 and again in 1764 when it became a Skinners workshop. It was from this that the street that used to run adjacent to the river derived its name. Skinner's Brae. ln 1822, the building became a house again and in 1926 the ground floor was turned into a...