Photographic copy of lower floor plan of North wing showing building work c.1700 and later work Pen and ink, with scale. Digital image of PBD 285 15 P.

Description Photographic copy of lower floor plan of North wing showing building work c.1700 and later work Pen and ink, with scale. Digital image of PBD 285 15 P.

Date 12/8/1963

Catalogue Number SC 760057

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PBD 285/15 P

Scope and Content Plan of lower floor of north wing, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This shows a plan of the lower floor of the service wing, which is hidden from view by sloping ground. It contains a 'killing house' for slaughtering animals for food, stables for the family horses, and those of visiting friends, and a brew house to provide beer for the estate, with its built-in boiler, mash tub and cooling trays. Traquair House brewery was founded in 1965 by the 20th Laird of Traquair, Peter Maxwell Stuart, who decided to restore the 18th-century brew house in the north service wing, after discovering its vessels and utensils were still in good condition. The brewery would have originally produced ale for the estate workers. 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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