Marchmont House

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Marchmont is a Grade A-listed Palladian mansion built in 1750 by Hugh Hume-Campbell, the 3rd Earl of Marchmont, under plans drawn up by William Adam and executed by Thomas Gibson. The house was transformed between 1914 and 1917, when Robert Finnie McEwen commissioned the eminent Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer to enlarge and modernise the house. Marchmont contains some of the finest Georgian interiors in Scotland as well as Lorimer’s magnificent oak-panelled Music Room. A private family home at the heart of the Marchmont Estate, near Greenlaw in the Scottish Borders, Marchmont lies at the end of the longest planted avenue in Scotland (1.3 miles). The house was awarded the 2018 Historic Houses Award, sponsored by Sotheby’s, for its seven-year restoration. Marchmont has an eclectic art and furniture collection spanning 550 years of art history, with a particular focus on Georgian art and furniture, modern British sculpture, Arts and Crafts, and Pre-Raphaelite art.