Aerial view from North East. Digital image of PB 2899.

Description Aerial view from North East. Digital image of PB 2899.

Date 1983

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 760026

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PB 2899

Scope and Content Aerial view from north-east, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This aerial view shows the rear of the main house, with its two wings and courtyard enclosing the 'foot' of the wineglass-shaped lawn. The row of buildings along the road (top left) are estate cottages close to the old walled garden. The maze, in the foreground, is seen in its third year after planting. The two small buildings facing the maze are garden pavilions. Traquair House maze would not be out of place in a formal Elizabethan garden, but was actually planted in 1980 to a design by John Schofield. It measures 44.80m-square and is composed of a closely-planted cupressus leylandi hedge. At its centre is a wooden platform for viewing other parts of the maze, which also includes a 'fool's exit' for those who are lost. 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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