View from south east Digital image of D 46977/cn

Description View from south east Digital image of D 46977/cn

Date 23/6/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 765013

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 46977 CN

Scope and Content Dabton House, Drumlanrig Estate, Dumfries & Galloway, from the south This charming, two-storeyed country house is built of pink sandstone quarried on the estate, and has sash windows with 12-paned glazing. The three-bayed symmetrical main block (left) has a narrow central recessed entrance bay with a wide, round-arched doorway, a double door and elegant fanlight (probably not original). The roof is carried over the bay, forming an unbroken line at the eaves. The second block, attached to the east end of the main block but with its front recessed, has tall ground-floor windows like those of the main block, and continues the first-floor sill course. Attached to its east end is a third block, stepped down and slightly recessed, with a round-arched door much narrower than the principal entrance, smaller ground-floor windows and no sill course. The fourth block, lower and with a set-back front, was added at the east end c.1840. The different parts of the house appear to form a hierarchical arrangement descending from west (left) to east (right), emphasised by the architectural detailing. The most important block was the main block which contained the principal rooms. Next in importance was the second block which housed the estate office. Both have tall ground-floor windows and a first-floor sill course. The third block, with its smaller ground-floor windows and narrower door, provided a tenants' waiting room and the kitchen; and the fourth block contained the servants' hall, scullery, larder and knife room. 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 Drumlanrig estate. The 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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