Duddingston House

Duddingston House
Duddingston House, entrance front
Duddingston House is located in Edinburgh
Duddingston House
Location within Edinburgh
55°56′21″N 3°08′13″W / 55.9391°N 3.1369°W / 55.9391; -3.1369
LocationDuddingston, Edinburgh, Scotland
History
Built1763–1768
Built forJames Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn
Site notes
ArchitectSir William Chambers
Architectural style
Palladian
Listed Building – Category A
Designated14 July 1966
Reference no.LB28065
Official name
Duddingston House
CriteriaArchitectural
Designated30 June 1987
Reference no.GDL00147

Duddingston House is an 18th-century mansion in Edinburgh, Scotland, located south-east of the village of Duddingston. It was built in the 1760s for James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn, and was designed by Sir William Chambers. It is now protected as a category A listed building,[1] and the grounds of the house are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.[2]

History

The lands of Duddingston were purchased by James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn (1712–1789), in 1745 from the Duke of Argyll. During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie's cavalry camped in the park, before the Battle of Prestonpans.[2] In 1760, Lord Abercorn commissioned Sir William Chambers (1723–1796) to design a modest new house, which was constructed between 1763 and 1768. The total cost of the house and pleasure grounds, laid out by Robert Robinson in the style of Capability Brown, was around £30,000.[2]

After Lord Abercorn's death in 1789, the estate passed to his heirs but the house was let. Its tenants were aristocratic including Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings who rented the property for many years and held an infamous garden fete in June 1805 inviting 300 of the Scottish nobility.[3]

The Benhar Coal Mining Company bought a large part of the 1,500-acre (610 ha) estate in the 1880s, and in 1894 Duddingston Golf Club was developed in the grounds. Holyrood High School was built in the park in the 1960s, to the west of the house.

Restoration

By the 1950s the house was in poor repair, and in 1959 it was bought, along with 9 acres (3.6 ha), by a Mr E. Gladstone, who restored the house and opened it as a hotel in 1963.[2] The house was again in disrepair in the 1980s. In the 1990s the stables and service block courtyard of the house were converted into town houses, while the main house was restored by the Burrell Company as offices.

References

  1. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Duddingston House (105 Milton Road West), Former Stables and Office (115-127 (Odd Numbers) Milton Road West) (Category A Listed Building LB28065)". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Historic Environment Scotland. "Duddingston House (GDL00147)". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  3. ^ Cassells Old and New Edinburgh vol.4 ch.37
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