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Edinburgh, Redford Road, Dreghorn Castle
Castle (19th Century), Country House (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Redford Road, Dreghorn Castle
Classification Castle (19th Century), Country House (19th Century)
Canmore ID 51789
Site Number NT26NW 44
NGR NT 22278 68134
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51789
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT26NW 44.00 22278 68134
NT26NW 44.01 22570 68654 Lodge
NMRS REFERENCE:
Dreghorn Castle was demolished in 1955. Information from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS Library.
NT26NW 65 2126 6780 Bonaly Tower
ARCHITECT: A and J Elliot c.1805
Demolished, April 1955.
NMRS COLLECTION
NMRS SPECIAL COLLECTION: LORIMER
LOR/DREGHORN CASTLE/1: 'Casino Chimneypiece' Restoration after fire. Dyeline print and watercolour. signed: 'JFM'. JF Mathew. d.December, 1905.
Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC23395- DC23396, 1920 & 1976.
Publication Account (1951)
189. Dreghorn Castle, Colinton.
The estate of Dreghorn, situated on the N. slopes of the Pentland Hills, was once owned by Sir William Murray, Master of Works to Charles II, and at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries by David Pitcairn, Writer in Edinburgh, who died in 1709. Passing through several hands, in 1763-4 it came into the possession of John MacLaurin, Lord Dreghorn; and in 1797, a year after his death, it was bought by Alexander Trotter, a paymaster in the Royal Navy. The large castellated mansion house assumed its present appearance at Trotter's hands some time between 1797 and 1862, probably about 1820; but the part of the N. front that is two storeys and an attic in height may date back to Pitcairn's time. If that is the case, however, this nucleus must have been remodelled by Lord Dreghorn, and again by his successor. It contains a low-ceiled room on the first floor, in which the several doors have heavily carved panel-moulds and door heads; the fireplace has a heavy bolection moulding of marble. The adjoining room on the W. has a fine marble mantelpiece with caryatid figures and, on the frieze, a sculptured panel. Some of the other apartments contain equally good marble mantelpieces, and the dining-room has a good enriched ceiling. These finishings were probably introduced by Paymaster Trotter, as they are all similar in style; moreover, the existing alcove in the dining-room can hardly be the one that Lord Dreghorn made the subject of a poem (1).
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
(1) The Works of the late John MacLaurin, Esq., of Dreghorn, i, p. 120.
Photographic Survey (1955)
Photographic survey of Dreghorn Castle, Edinburgh, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1955, prior to demolition.
