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View of Traquair House, the Scottish Borders, from South-West.
SC 532494
Description View of Traquair House, the Scottish Borders, from South-West.
Date 1999
Catalogue Number SC 532494
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 59903 CN
Scope and Content Traquair House from the south-west, Scottish Borders This shows the house from the 'wineglass lawn' (so called because of its distinctive shape). The harled and white-painted walls of the house and service wings contrast with the dark slates of the roof and the exposed sandstone dressings around the windows. An ornate wrought-iron screen closes off the area to form a courtyard accessed through tall urn-topped gate piers. The two-storeyed plus attic north service wing (left) was remodelled c.1800 originally to contain a 'killing house' for slaughtering animals, stables and brewhouse. The upper level (reached from the courtyard) housed a workshop, malt loft, chapel and boot room. The south wing contains a dining room, drawing room, gun room, dressing room and study. 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.
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