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Scanned image of oblique aerial view from N.
SC 765860
Description Scanned image of oblique aerial view from N.
Date 1983
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 765860
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BW 5205
Scope and Content Aerial view of Paxton House, Scottish Borders This aerial view shows the main house with the large pedimented portico (porch) on four columns in the centre. The old kitchen wing was the two-storeyed block on the right with outbuildings on the far right. The buildings around the small courtyard on the left contained the stables with the picture gallery and library in the large two-storeyed block on the left. Patrick Home never married Charlotte de Brandt and she died c.1770. In 1771 he married Jane Graham of Dugaldstone but the marriage failed. Ninian Home, Patrick's cousin, bought Paxton in 1773 and his brother George inherited the property in 1795. George fell heir to Patrick Home's picture collection in 1808 and commissioned Robert Reid (1774-1856) to construct the picture gallery and library, built 1811-14. Paxton House was built in the late 1750s by Patrick Home of Billie for his intended bride Charlotte de Brandt, daughter of King Frederick the Great of Prussia. The house was probably designed by John Adam (1721-92) and James Adam (1732-94) and has c.1773 interior work by Robert Adam (1728-92). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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