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Dalmeny House, family home of the Earls of Rosebery, is set in parkland
overlooking the Firth of Forth, just west of Edinburgh. It is open to the public
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday from Sunday 24th May to Tuesday 28th July with Guided
Tours only at 2.15pm and 3.30pm. A tearoom serving light refreshments will be open
during these times. Outside these times, guided tours, with optional refreshments,
are available to groups by prior arrangement.
When Dalmeny House was completed in 1817, it marked a great
departure in Scottish architecture; its Tudor Gothic style,
with its highly-decorated chimneys and crenellations, looked
back toward fanciful 16th-century English mansions, such as
Hampton Court. The house was designed by a University friend
of the 4th Earl of Rosebery, William Wilkins, who would go
on to design the National Gallery in London and much of King's
College, Cambridge - parts of which closely resemble Dalmeny.
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