House Tour

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State Dressing Room

The State Dressing Room together with the South Dressing Room and State Bedroom occupy what was the Tudor and Jacobean Great Chamber and lengths of its plaster frieze survive above their suspended ceilings. One of a suite of rooms probably created specifically for the daughters and grand-daughters of the 9th Viscount, it served as a dressing room for the State Bedroom.

In the inventory of 1808 this was described as '5th Room, Miss Gordon's'. Miss Gordon was Isabella Keir Gordon (1782 - 1831) the only daughter of Lord and Lady William Gordon. She was immortalised in Reynolds' famous portrait of her as 'Heads of Angels' (Tate, Britain). The room contained 'a 3 feet slope teaster field bedstead, ...a Kidderminster Carpet... a high mahogany clothes press... a mahogany pembroke drawer... a mahogany ladies dressing table with a folding top... etc'. The present wallpaper is an exact copy of an example found here and in the adjoining room dating from the 1820s.

Room restored 2005

Lady William Gordon's Room

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