Longitudinal section
SC 357576
Description Longitudinal section
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 357576
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 77816 CN
Scope and Content Plan showing the longitudinal section of Prestonfield House, Priestfield Road, Edinburgh Prestonfield House, now a hotel, stands on the south side of Duddingston Loch. It was designed in the 1680s by Sir William Bruce for Sir James Dick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, to replace an earlier house burnt down by a student demonstration in 1681. The original three-storeyed house with basement has its main entrance to the west, and has an imposing covered porch, large enough to admit a carriage, added in 1818. A large single-storeyed and basement extension was added to the east end c.1830. The house has several interesting rooms including the Tapestry Room, the original drawing room, with an elaborate plaster ceiling, and the Leather Room, the original bedchamber, lined with 17th-century wooden panelling and red embossed leather panels. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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