Text Box: History of the House Text Box: The Old Mill House in Newstead is one of the oldest sites in the oldest inhabited village in Scotland.   The site is at the confluence of the Malthouse Burn and the Auld Cauld – a water course constructed by the builders of Melrose Abbey that runs through the garden of the house today.  It may even have been the site of a mill during the Roman occupation of the village two thousand years ago.   The present building probably dates in part back to the sixteenth century and there are still some of the original exposed beams in the kitchen dining room.  Some of the previous occupants have left their mark on the property – old mill stones in the garden, 18th century graffiti on the marble fireplace in the lounge and old Edwardian pictures. The little girl on the steps (below) came to visit our family when she was 96 years old and took great delight in the changes that had been made since 1903.

The old mill water course (above and below)

The house at the turn of the 19th century

The house today
The Old Mill House at Newstead