Entrance front, view from NW.

Description Entrance front, view from NW.

Date 15/8/1996

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

Catalogue Number D 2243 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 684866

Scope and Content Paxton House, Scottish Borders, from north-west This shows the main house with its large pedimented portico (porch) on four columns in the centre. The stable wing was the two-storeyed block on the left and the former kitchen wing was the two-storeyed block on the right. The symmetrical appearance of these buildings is a feature of Palladian architecture, an architectural movement named after the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-80). The central three bays of the kitchen wing contained a large kitchen spread over two floors. The bay to the left contained a corridor on the ground floor and a cupboard on the upper level. The bay to the right contained a cook's room on the ground floor and a cupboard on the upper level. The five bays (of which three are shown) of the stable wing contained stables on the ground floor and a hayloft on the upper floor. 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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