View of N garden pavilion from S.

Description View of N garden pavilion from S.

Date 11/10/1999

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

Catalogue Number D 59907 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 760068

Scope and Content North garden pavilion from south, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This shows one of two identical pavilions at the rear of the house. They feature harled walls and have wide sandstone margins around the door and at the wall-head. The ogee (double-curved) slated roofs are surmounted by ball finials. The pavilions would have been used for entertaining guests and for serving tea in. The interiors of these pavilions are covered with panelling, and have deep wooden cornices and moulded door surrounds. The ceilings are painted with Classical scenes depicting Venus, goddess of love. Many wealthy landowners built tea-houses and pavilions on their estates as novel places to entertain their guests in fashionable picturesque surroundings. Traquair is the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland, with its origins in the 10th century. It was the site of a royal hunting lodge in the 1200s, but the house as seen today is based around a c.1512 tower-house with many later additions. The flanking service wings were built in 1695 to designs by architect James Smith (c.1645-1731), who also designed the wrought-iron screens round the courtyard in 1698. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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