Scottish thistle pietra intagliata pannello. Il Belvedere, Queen Elizabeth walled garden, Dumfries House, Cumnock, East Ayrshire, in Scozia, Unired unito, e
4100 x 3261 px | 34,7 x 27,6 cm | 13,7 x 10,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1 novembre 2018
Ubicazione:
The Belvedere, Queen Elizabeth walled garden, Dumfries House, Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, Unir
Altre informazioni:
D. Blake & Co were awarded the leadwork package to cover the tower roof of the belvedere on the terrace overlooking the Queen Elizabeth walled garden. There was a tight works programme to fit in with the scheduled opening by the Queen on 2nd July 2015. Around 3.5 tonnes of code 6 lead was supplied by Jamestown Metals and installed with a gutter at base level discharging through ornamental lead cast dragons and a welted step section. 56 lead panels were then fitted to the tower onto a 22mm thick timber substrate with open gap boarding. Dumfries House is a Palladian country house in Ayrshire, Scotland. It is located within a large estate, around 2 miles west of Cumnock. Noted for being one of the few such houses with much of its original 18th-century furniture still present, including specially commissioned Thomas Chippendale pieces, the house and estate is now owned in charitable trust by The Great Steward of Scotland's Dumfries House Trust, which maintains it as a visitor attraction and hospitality and wedding venue. Both the house and the gardens are listed as significant aspects of Scottish heritage. The estate and an earlier house was originally called Lefnoreis or Lochnorris, owned by a branch of the Craufurds of Loudoun. The present house was built in the 1750s for William Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries, by John Adam and Robert Adam. Having been inherited by the 2nd Marquess of Bute in 1814, it remained in his family until 2007 when the 7th Marquess sold it to the nation for £45 million due to the cost of upkeep.
