Traquair House, North garden pavillion, interior View of panelling. Digital image of PB 607.

Description Traquair House, North garden pavillion, interior View of panelling. Digital image of PB 607.

Date 1963

Catalogue Number SC 760029

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PB 607

Scope and Content Interior of north garden pavilion, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This shows the panelled interior of the north pavilion. The walls of this elegant summer house are divided up into panels between the dado rail and cornice. The door has an emphasised surround and wide pediment. The ceiling of this room features an 18th-century Classical-style painting of figures in a landscape. The exterior of the pavilions 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. 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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