Dalmeny House
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Dalmeny House is a large Gothic mansion designed by William Wilkins (architect), completed in 1817 and estate at Dalmeny on the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It lies just outside South Queensferry, near Edinburgh and is the home of the Earl and Countess of Rosebery. The house was the first in Scotland to be built in the Tudor style in the early 19th Century. It provided more comfortable accommodation than the former ancestral residence, Barnbougle Castle, which still stands close by.
Dalmeny today remains a private house, though it is open to the public for a small fee during the summer. In contrast to the exterior, most of the principal rooms are in the Regency style, with the exception of the hammer beamed hall. The house contains many very notable paintings and items of furniture from both the Rosebery and Rothschild collections. Much of the French furniture and porcelain came from the family's English mansion, Mentmore, following the latter's sale in 1977. Dalmeny also holds one of Britain's largest collections of Napoleonia.
The house sits in a large wooded park, and enjoys views of the coast.
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