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Glen House
Castle · near Innerleithen · Scottish Borders

Glen House

Glen House is an estate and country house. Look for it 4.2 km southwest of Innerleithen. Officially, it is a category A listed building.

Photo: Glen House, Iain Lees (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Where
4.2 km
southwest of Innerleithen
How well known
Top 28%
#2,392 of 8,556 places we list
Warmest months
Jul–Aug
highs of 18–19°C
In brief

Castle near Innerleithen

Just outside Innerleithen

Glen House is 4.2 km southwest of Innerleithen. Towns near it ↓

Category A listed building

On the official list of protected heritage; Innerleithen has 26 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Weather by the month

For warmth in Innerleithen, choose July and August (18–19°C).

Jan6° / 1°99 mm
Feb6° / 0°91 mm
Mar8° / 1°81 mm
Apr11° / 3°68 mm
May14° / 5°64 mm
Jun17° / 8°77 mm
Jul19° / 10°86 mm
Aug18° / 10°90 mm
Sep15° / 8°82 mm
Oct12° / 5°114 mm
Nov8° / 2°113 mm
Dec6° / 0°124 mm
Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Innerleithen, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Innerleithen. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Innerleithen’s full climate →
About

Glen House

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 3 languages. A short trip away is Traquair House Maze, 4.1 km off, the first of 16 within 15 km.

Innerleithen’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type
Castle
Listed
Category A listed building
Wikipedias
Covered in 3 languages
Town
4.2 km southwest of Innerleithen
Official site
glenhouse.com
Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
The map

Finding Glen House

The numbers show what else is near Glen House, in the order listed below.

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© OpenStreetMap contributors · NRS locality 2022

Towns near it

Towns that count Glen House

Each town here links to its own guide.

1 · 4.2 km northeast of it

Innerleithen

3,152 people · 7 places to visit

Make a day of it

Nearby, too

Within 15 km are 16 places, among them 4 castles, 2 gardens and a museum.

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Glen House in questions

Where is Glen House?

Glen House is 4.2 km southwest of Innerleithen, Scottish Borders.

What is Glen House?

Estate and country house in Scotland.

When is the best time to visit Glen House?

July and August are the warmest months in Innerleithen, with afternoon highs of 18–19°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Glen House a listed building?

Yes: category A listed building.

What else is there to see near Glen House?

Within 15 km: Traquair House Maze (4.1 km), Neidpath Castle (9.7 km), Robert Smail's Printing Works (5 km) and Horsburgh Castle (6.3 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (8)

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.