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The White Bedroom.
The White bedroom is suitated on the ground floor in the 18th century wing of the House and is available on a bed and breakfast basis. The room is furnished with antique furniture, a canopied bed, private bathroom and has a lovely view over Cupids Garden but has an additional view of the Wine Glass Lawn at the front of the House.
The Blue Bedroom.
The Blue bedroom is suitated on the ground floor in the 18th century wing of the House and is available on a bed and breakfast basis. The room is furnished with antique furniture, a canopied bed, private bathroom and has a lovely view over Cupids Garden.
The Pink Bedroom
The Pink bedroom is in the main House and is available on a bed and breakfast basis. The room is furnished with antique furniture, a canopied bed, private bathroom and has a lovely view over the maze.
The Still Room
The Still Room, which has a fine selection of blue and white china, is situated on the ground floor and is where breakfast is served.
The Lower Drawing Room
We are delighted to offer our bed and breakfast guests the use of the Lower Drawing Room to relax in during their stay.
Other Rooms of the House, available to view privately when you stay with us.
When completed in the 16th century, the High Drawing Room ceiling was decorated with painted beams and panels: typical of Scottish painted ceilings at that time. The fragments which you can see today were discovered and restored in 1954.
In the middle of the 1700's the fifth Earl of Traquair who had visited Italy as a young man, covered the beams and paneled the walls in the classical style which remains today.
The Chapel
The chapel was made after the Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829, which allowed Catholics to worship openly again. Previously the room was a billiard room and it is situated immediately over the Brew House. This is quite obvious when brewing is taking place! The white marble altar was brought over from Italy by Henry Maxwell Stuart and is the work of the Italian sculptor Brumidi. The carved oak panels on the walls are scenes from the life of Christ. They are Flemish and were brought to Scotland by Scottish craftsmen who travelled through the Low Countries in the early part of the 1500’s. In former times the family sat behind the curtains at the back of the chapel where there was a fire. This area has now been made into a sacristy.
The Library
Created between 1700 and 1740, the Library has a collection of about 3000 books and has remained almost intact since it was first formed.
Portraits of philosophers and poets around the ceiling cornice are used for cataloging the books, which are numbered and ordered below them.
The Dining Room
The Dining Room in one of the "modern" wings (added to the house in the late 1600's). The decoration of the room now is mainly Victorian. The wallpaper was purchased at the Great Exhibition in 1851. On the walls around the room you can see portraits of the majority of Earls of Traquair (including the 1st Earl of Traquair).
Traquair Grounds
Originally part of the Ettrick Forest Traquair was originally surrounded by its woodlands. Even today it nestles amongst the most wonderful trees planted mainly in the 1870's and containing huge Douglas Firs, Limes, Ash, Horse Chestnut and Beech. Perhaps, most spectacular of all is the yew tree circle thought to have been part of the old Ettrick Forest and certainly some of the oldest yews in Scotland.
The woodland trails around the house include Lady Louisa's favourite walk and a gentle stroll down to the River Tweed with striking views of the Tweed Valley.
The Maze was planted in 1981 and is one of the largest hedged mazes in Scotland covering over half an acre and it is 1/4mile to reach the centre.
The Maze is situated at the rear of the house where originally a par terre garden was laid out in the eighteenth century. The terrace walls provide an excellent vantage point for parents to try and direct their children out of the maze.
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