Interior view of the dining room. Digital image of ED 1943.

Description Interior view of the dining room. Digital image of ED 1943.

Date 29/7/1958

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 774531

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ED 1943

Scope and Content Old Dining Room, Prestonfield House, No 71 Priestfield Road, Edinburgh This shows the old dining room, with its tall windows and apsidal (curved) end allowing fine views over the designed pastoral landscape below. A plasterwork cornice runs around the room, and family portraits in gilded frames hang on the walls. Two lamps on tall stands light the room, which is furnished with small dining tables and chairs dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The dining room and the drawing room were built on either side of a domed vestibule to the south of the house in 1830. Guests would sit down to lavish dinners in this well-proportioned and elegantly furnished room before 'withdrawing' to the drawing room for after-dinner drinks and entertainments. Prestonfield House was rebuilt for Sir James Dick in 1687 by the architect Sir William Bruce (c.1630-1710) after being burnt down during a student riot in 1681. A single-storeyed extension was added in c.1830, and in 1890 architects MacGibbon & Ross added a bathroom extension. Within the grounds is an unusual round stable block built in 1816 to designs by James Gillespie Graham (1777-1855). The house has been run as a hotel since 1959. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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