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Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

Historic Scottish Property, near South Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland

post updated 30 March 2022

Location: South Queensferry, off A90, north-west of Edinburgh

photograph © Adrian Welch

Home of the Lord Rosebery

Design: William Wilkins, architect

Address: South Queensferry, Edinburgh EH30 9TQ

Opened: 1817

Dalmeny House Edinburgh

Dalmeny Gardens photo © Adrian Welch

Barnbougle Castle (picture below, in distance at the tip) was the previous home prior to Dalmeny House.

View of House along Forth photo © Adrian Welch

Contact Dalmeny House & Gardens: +44 (0)131 331 1888 ; [email protected]

In 1774 Neil Primrose, 3rd Earl of Rosebery, commissioned Robert Adam to design a new house at Barnbougle, and in 1788 Robert Burn also provided designs. However, the Earl concentrated on the estate, carrying out woodland planting and constructing a walled garden.

The son of the 3rd Earl, Archibald Primrose, commissioned further plans in the early 19th century: from William Atkinson (1805) and William Burn (1808). Again nothing was done until Archibald succeeded as 4th Earl of Rosebery in 1814. He then turned for a new house to Jeffrey Wyatt, who provided a Tudor Gothic design. Lord Rosebery approved, but wished to employ architect William Wilkins. Wilkins was therefore asked for a Tudor Gothic design, which was eventually built in 1817.
source: wikipedia