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Description: | Photographs and drawings of the house exterior, servants and coats of arms. The house was originally built in 1589 but was rebuilit in the 1630s. The original chimeny and date stone have survivied. It was originally the property of the Hamiltons of Kilbrackmont and in 1634 was acquired by Sir James Murray of Kilbaberton, architect to King Charles 1. In 1647 it passed to Edinburgh lawyer William Scott and remained in this family until 1882 when it was acquired by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Roseberry. In 1968 it was given to the National Trust for Scotland by the owners Commander and Mrs Gore-Browne-Henderson. The gardens are also of great interest and are dominated by four 400 year old yew trees. There were originally twelve known as the Apostle Trees but eight were cut down by the Gore-Browne Hendersons and replaced by much of the current gardens. | Format: | Mixed | License: | http://www.stickii.co.uk/umis/termsandconditions.html#heriot-watt-rights | Publisher: | Heriot-Watt University Archive, Records Management and Museum Service, Edinburgh Campus | Rights holder: | 46182 | Temporal: | c 1900-1980 | Source: | Heriot-Watt University | Identifier: | TWP/9/1/4 | Format: | Mixed |
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