Penicuik House

Today's Covid Exercise Walk took us to Penicuik and a walk round the estate of Penicuik House. 
Photo of Front Elevation Extra Photos of rear and view to new Penicuik House

" Penicuik House is considered the finest example of a Neo-Palladian Mansion in the UK and is set within 1,000 acres of stunning designed landscape.

Standing at the heart of one of Scotland’s most important 18th-century designed landscapes Penicuik House was designed and built in the 1760s by Sir James Clerk, 3rd Baronet of Penicuik, with John Baxter the Elder, a renowned builder of that period, responsible for many of Scotland’s most distinguished 18th-century country houses. Later extended with two large wings by the eminent Victorian architect David Bryce in 1857, the house quickly became established as one of the finest second-generation neo-Palladian houses in the country until a fire in 1899 devastated the roof and interiors and left the once-magnificent building in ruins."