Pinkie House

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Pinkie House
South side of Pinkie House

Pinkie House is a mansion in the Scottish town of Musselburgh in the East Lothian council area . In 1971 the building was included in the Scottish List of Monuments in the highest category A. The associated gardens are also listed on the Scottish Landscaping Register.

history

It is possible that there was already a small fortress on the site when the abbots of the Benedictine Dunfermline Abbey had an L-shaped building erected there in the 16th century. This forms the nucleus of today's Pinkie House. It was not far from the battlefield of the great Battle of Pinkie Cleugh . Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline , acquired the Pinkie lands in 1597 when he was promoted to Lord Fyvie . As Seton was involved in the education of the Crown Prince and later King Charles I , he spent some time in Pinkie House. When he traveled to Scotland for his coronation in 1637, he stayed at Pinkie House. A room that is known today as the King's Room was set up especially for this occasion . Seton died in Pinkie House in 1623. Before his death, around 1620, he arranged for the expansion of Pinkie House, which almost doubled the area of ​​the mansion.

In 1688 the lands fell to John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale , who lived at Yester Castle . He initiated some work on the manor house, from which the year 1697 comes from various stones. After Hay's death in the same year, Pinkie House passed to John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale , the builder of Yester House , and was initially inherited within the Hay family. After the Battle of Prestonpans, the British pretender Charles Edward Stuart stayed at Pinkie House. In 1788, Clan Hay sold the property to Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet of Clan Hope . In 1825 the manor house was extended and redesigned for the last time. The executive architect was William Burn . The Loretto School acquired the property in 1951 and has been using it ever since.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b c Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland

Web links

Commons : Pinkie House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 55 ° 56 '33.2 "  N , 3 ° 2' 38.1"  W.