Traquair House, stables View of interior. Digital image of PB 609.

Description Traquair House, stables View of interior. Digital image of PB 609.

Date 1963

Catalogue Number SC 760040

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PB 609

Scope and Content Interior of stables, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This shows the stables on the lower floor of the north service wing, next to the old slaughterhouse, and the brew house. The area is divided into stalls for the horses by wooden partitions, and racks for hay and water are built against the wall. The floor is cobbled and incorporates a drainage channel. Country estates needed to keep large numbers of horses for use with carriages before the age of the motor car. Horses were also used for riding and hunting, and sometimes ponies would be kept for children to ride. Lavish stables were built to care for the horses of the nobility, and a staff of grooms and stableboys hired to look after the tack, tend the horses and to drive and maintain the carriages. 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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