View from E. Digital image of D/2237/CN

Description View from E. Digital image of D/2237/CN

Date 15/8/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 765864

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 2237 CN

Scope and Content Paxton House, Scottish Borders, from east This shows the main house with its large pediment over the three projecting central bays and the two-storeyed picture gallery and library on the right. The well-proportioned and symmetrical appearance of the main house is a feature of Palladian architecture, an architectural movement named after the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-80). The central three bays on the ground floor of the main house contained, from left, a housekeeper's room, her storeroom and a pantry. The dining room was above on the first floor with family bedrooms on the second floor. The two bays to the right contained the male servants' bedroom on the ground floor, the drawing room on the first floor and closets on the second floor. 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. Patrick Home never married Charlotte de Brandt and she died c.1770. 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). 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. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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