View from west Digital image of D 46973/cn

Description View from west Digital image of D 46973/cn

Date 23/6/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 764994

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 46973 CN

Scope and Content Dabton House, Drumlanrig Estate, Dumfries & Galloway, from the north This two-storeyed north front has a main block of five bays which contained the principal rooms. Its central bay is advanced and pedimented with a three-light ground-floor window set within a shallow round-arched doorway. The sash windows have 12-paned glazing, with those on the ground floor taller than those on the floor above. A sill course forms a continuous band at first-floor level, and a canted bay window, installed c.1860, lights the ground-floor drawing room (right). Attached to the east end of the main block but with its front recessed, is a second block which contained the tenants' waiting room and the kitchen. A third block, again with a set-back front, was added to the east end c.1840 to provide accommodation for the servants' hall, scullery, larder and knife room. The Chamberlain was an important official who was appointed by the duke to manage his household and estate. He was usually a member of the local gentry, and was given overall responsibility for the estate. He bought or rented land, looked after the tenants of the farms on the estate, collected rents and other estate dues, and administered justice where required. As an important figure he had his own domestic staff, stables for his coaches and horses, kennels for his dogs, and an extensive garden under the care of several gardeners. Dabton House, a small Classical mansion house with stepped additions, was designed c.1820 by the fashionable London architect, William Atkinson (c.1773-1839), for the chamberlain (factor or estate manager) of the Duke of Queensberry's estate. Drumlanrig estate, which derived some of its land from King Robert Bruce c.1300, includes the family seat, Drumlanrig Castle, one of the great Renaissance courtyard houses of Scottish domestic architecture, and provides employment for several hundred people. Dabton House is now the home of the Earl of Dalkeith, heir to the estate. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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