View from S.

Description View from S.

Date 23/6/1999

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

Catalogue Number D 46932 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 765050

Scope and Content Heather House, Drumlanrig Estate, Dumfries & Galloway, from the south This charming Victorian garden house dates from 1844. It is octagonal, with roughly-hewn tree trunks supporting a conical roof (now slated but probably originally thatched with heather). The roof is extended to form a verandah around the house. The sides are faced with heather, and pierced by pointed-arched openings. Bench seating, faced with geometrically patterned short lengths of split twigs, is arranged round the verandah. Heather House is an example of some of the most interesting and remarkable garden houses of the Victorian era. It is similar in design to a moss-house, which was also constructed of rustic-style timber and thatched. Its function was to provide a comfortable and interesting garden retreat within a short distance of the castle, and a botanical interest for the female family members who could collect various species of heather found on the estate and arrange them into patterns on the inner walls. Heather House, a mid-19th-century summerhouse, stands in a clearing within the wooded grounds of Drumlanrig Castle. The castle, one of the great Renaissance courtyard houses of Scottish domestic architecture, was built between 1679 and 1690 for William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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