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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 from 2pm to 5:30pm Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday afternoons in July and August. There are guided
tours and a tearoom serving light refreshments. Outside these
times, guided tours, with optional refreshments, are available
to groups by prior arrangement. Last admission 4.30pm.
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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