January 7th Photograph Dalmeny House Scotland

January 7th winter photograph of Dalmeny House near Edinburgh, Scotland. Dalmeny House is a Gothic revival mansion, designed by William Wilkins, and completed in 1817. The house is the home of the Earl and Countess of Rosebery. The house was the first in Scotland to be built in the Tudor revival style.


January 7th winter photograph of Dalmeny House near Edinburgh, Scotland. Dalmeny today remains a private house, although it is open to the public during the summer months. In contrast to the exterior, most of the principal rooms are in the Regency style, with the exception of the hammerbeam roof of the hall. The house contains many paintings and items of furniture from both the Rosebery and Rothschild collections, as a result of the 5th Earl's marriage to Hannah, daughter and heir of Meyer de Rothschild. Much of the French furniture and porcelain came from the family's English mansion, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, following the latter's sale in 1977. Dalmeny also holds one of Britain's largest collections of Napoleonia. The house sits in a large wooded park, and enjoys views of the Forth coastline.


January 7th winter photograph of the road to Dalmeny House near Edinburgh, Scotland.

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