The walls are adorned with oak panelling from the Auld Kirk (the Parish Church within the old Abbey) of Dunfermline, and with richly carved panels from the same church and also, it is said, from Holyrood Palace.

The two semi-circular presses between the windows formed originally the pulpit and precentor's desk of the Auld Kirk of Dunfermline. The former is commonly called 'Erskine's Pulpit.' On one of the presses sits a bust of the Rt. Hon. William Adam of Blair Adam, Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court, a valued friend of Sir Walter. Over the east door is a statue of St. Andrew and on the west wall are statues of St. Peter and St. Paul, all copied from those in Melrose Abbey.

The stone fireplace is partly copied from one of the stalls in the cloisters of Melrose Abbey. The old basket grate is said to have belonged to Archbishop Sharp, who was murdered on Magus Muir in 1679.

The two cannon balls are said to have been used at the siege of Roxburgh Castle, 1460. On the mantelpiece is a model of the skull of Robert the Bruce, whose tomb was opened at Dunfermline in 1818. Below one of the windows stands a glass case containing the last suit of clothes worn by Sir Walter.

Round the cornice are painted the arms of Border families, with the following inscription: 'These be the Coat Armouris, of ye Clannis, and men of name, quha keep it the Scottish Marches in ye days of auld. They were worthie in thair tyme and in thair defens God thaim defended.'

The arms of Sir Walter's ancestors occupy the shields running down the centre of the roof. A cast of Chantrey's bust of Wordsworth sits on a table. The mosaic forming the top of the table was presented by Archibald Constable.

West Wall

Relics from Waterloo include; Two French cuirasses, above one of which is a Polish lancer's headdress (chapka). (Napoleon was allowed to have a bodyguard on the island of Elba, which included a Polish Squadron.They landed in France and followed him to the Battle of Waterloo.) The original lock and key of Selkirk jail.

Model of the 'Bishop's branks, preserved in St. Mary's Church, St Andrews. Put on heads of scolding wives to prevent them from having the use of their tongues.

Head of an elk found in Abbotrule Moss in Roxburghshire.

Skull and horns of the extinct wild cattle of Scotland, found in Galloway.

North Wall

A large Cowhorn Border Touting Horn from Hermitage Castle.

A Jedburgh or 'Jeddart' axe of the period of James V, with brass-tipped wood shaft. The original keys of 'The Heart of Midlothian' or old Tolbooth of Edinburgh.

East Wall

On each side of the door a fine suit of armour.

The one on the right is an Augsburg tilt armour of about 1580. The blade of the sword is engraved on both sides with a complete calendar of the saints days. Two Highland back-swords found on the Field of Culloden.