View from the North of the North East barrel vaulted cellar Digital image of C/34650

Description View from the North of the North East barrel vaulted cellar Digital image of C/34650

Date 27/4/1994

Catalogue Number SC 759687

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 34650

Scope and Content North-east barrel-vaulted cellar, Newhailes, Musselburgh, East Lothian This shows the area directly below the library which was a barrel-vaulted (semicircular-roofed) cellar with flat-arched doorways giving access to further cellars. When the library wing was designed it was perhaps hoped that cellars rather than living accommodation would keep the books in the library above drier. The main service rooms were located in the basement and were where the servants prepared and cooked food and washed linen. The family entertained guests in the main reception rooms (dining and drawing rooms) on the ground floor and mainly slept in the bedrooms on the first floor. The servants shared bedrooms in the attic of the house. 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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