Dalmeny House
Dalmeny House , built in 1817, was the first Tudor Gothic building in Scotland and is a Category A Listed Building. The mansion is east of South Queensferry on the south bank of the Firth of Forth . It was designed by the English architect William Wilkins in 1815 and completed in 1817. Dalmeny is now privately owned but is open to the public during the summer months.
history
In the 13th century, the estate was owned by the Mowbray family , who had already built Barnbougle Castle there. The property was acquired in 1662 by Sir Archibald Primrose, whose son was named Earl of Rosebery in 1703 . In 1774, Neil Primrose, 3rd Earl of Rosebery, commissioned Robert Adam to design a new house in Barnbougle, which was first designed in 1788. However, the earl focused on the estate by planting a forest and building a walled garden. The son of the 3rd Earl commissioned further plans at the beginning of the 19th century : to William Atkinson in 1805 and to William Burn in 1808. However, the implementation did not materialize and was delayed until the 4th Earl of Rosebery took the planning into his hands in 1814. He turned to Jeffrey Wyatt, who designed a house in the Tudor Gothic design. Lord Rosebery agreed to this design, but wanted to hire William Wilkins as an architect, whom he knew personally from his Cambridge days. He agreed and built the new mansion by 1817. As early as 1812, the landscape around the house was laid out and designed by Thomas White Jr.
The house was visited in 1927 by Queen Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck and her daughter Mary Frances (1883–1961).
Dalmeny was damaged by fire during the Second World War, but has been professionally restored and, thanks to the enthusiasm of the 6th Earl and also the Countess, is integrated into the conception of the Edinburgh Festival as a venue . Today Dalmeny is the home of the Counts of Rosebery and has been open to the public since 1979.
Interior decoration
In contrast to the outside area, most of the main rooms are designed in the Regency style, with the exception of the hammered roof of the hall. The house contains many paintings and furniture from the Rosebery and Rothschild collections , resulting from the marriage of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery in 1878, to Hannah, the only daughter and heiress of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild. Much of the French furniture and china came from the Mentmore family's English mansion in Buckinghamshire after it was sold in 1977. Dalmeny also has one of the largest collections of Napoleonic memorabilia in Britain, including paintings of the emperor, furniture he used and other trophies, such as the electoral chair of the Duke of Wellington .
Outdoor area
The house is in a large wooded park and overlooks the Firth of Forth . A public path runs along the coast from Queens to the west and Cramond to the east. The ferry across the Almond River that connects the route to the village of Cramond has not been in operation since 2000. The still existing, traditional agricultural operation is guaranteed by tenants.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b Dalmeny House at scottish-places.info, accessed on March 2, 2019.
- ↑ 'chain ferry' floated as way to restore historic link Iceland in scotsman.com, accessed on 2 March of 2019.
- ↑ Dalmeny House & Estate at roseberyestates.co.uk, accessed March 2, 2019.
Coordinates: 55 ° 59 '17.3 " N , 3 ° 20' 3.9" W.