Former kitchen, view from West North West Digital image of D/12686

Description Former kitchen, view from West North West Digital image of D/12686

Date 18/4/1997

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

Catalogue Number SC 759617

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 12686

Scope and Content Former kitchen, Newhailes, Musselburgh, East Lothian This shows the former kitchen in the basement where all the meals for the family were cooked. Food was prepared on the table and cooked in the range behind, under the arch on the left. The fireplace on the right originally housed a range and retains a rotary spit, set into the chimney flue (above), which was used to turn pots or meat by the range. The cook was a senior servant in the household and she would have been in charge of this kitchen. Scullery and kitchen maids would have cleaned the room and kitchen utensils and prepared ingredients for the meals. If the cook was a 'professed cook' then she would only have done the 'proper' cooking for entertaining guests, leaving the ordinary, day-to-day cooking to a maid. James Smith (c.1645-1731) architect, designed and built Newhailes House (originally known as Whitehill) in 1686. Sir David Dalrymple (c.1665-1721) bought the estate in 1709 and started the construction of the library wing in 1718 which was completed after his death in 1721 by his son, Sir James Dalrymple (1692-1751). The house was modernised in 1871-3 when Lord Shand was tenant, and has remained largely unchanged since. The National Trust for Scotland became the owners of Newhailes House in January 1997. The house opened to the public on 1 June 2002 after a £12.7 million conservation project that ensured the house was stabilised without losing the patination of the interior decoration. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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