View from SW.

Description View from SW.

Date 15/8/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number D 2239 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 765863

Scope and Content Paxton House, Scottish Borders, from south-west This shows the main house with a large pediment over the three projecting central bays, and the two-storeyed former kitchen wing on the left. The well-proportioned and symmetrical appearance of these two buildings is a feature of Palladian architecture, an architectural movement named after the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-80). The central three bays on the ground floor of the main house contained, from left, a housekeeper's room, her storeroom and a pantry. The dining room was above on the first floor with family bedrooms on the second floor. The two bays to the left contained a servery on the ground floor, and family bedrooms on the first and second floors. Paxton House was built in the late 1750s by Patrick Home of Billie for his intended bride Charlotte de Brandt, daughter of King Frederick the Great of Prussia. Patrick Home never married Charlotte de Brandt and she died c.1770. The house was probably designed by John Adam (1721-92) and James Adam (1732-94) and has c.1773 interior work by Robert Adam (1728-92). Ninian Home, Patrick's cousin, bought Paxton in 1773 and his brother George inherited the property in 1795. George fell heir to Patrick Home's picture collection in 1808 and commissioned Robert Reid (1774-1856) to construct the picture gallery and library, built 1811-14. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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