The Dining Room

The Dining Room was the sixteenth-century banqueting-hall, transformed in the eighteenth century to its present baroque grandeur, with a heavily-modelled stucco ceiling with roundels of the seasons painted by Thomas Bardwell. The marble chimneypiece with a head of Apollo, was made by Thomas Carter of London in 1751.

Clayton's overmantel is in the form of a trophy of arms of all periods. In the wall panels are landscape decorations of local scenes by Charles Stewart, an Atholl artist patronised by the 3rd Duke, and one of the earliest Scottish landscape-painters. The carved side-table with the mask and lion-skin apron is in the style of Kent, and the pair of side-tables with marble tops and claw feet are by John Hodson of London. The silver model of a stag was a silver-wedding present to the 7th Duke and Duchess from Atholl tenantry in 1888. The base of marble was quarried locally in Glen Tilt.