The Dressing Room

Originally this was more of a private sitting room and it was not until the 19th century that it became what we understand as a dressing room in the modern sense. At that time the fixed bath was installed to the left of the fireplace. The frieze is original and the design for the chimney piece, like so many other Adam designs for Culzean, is in the Soane Museum.

The original colour scheme was restored in 1979 and the carpet was specially woven to a design by Sheraton.

The two full-length portraits by William Owen are of Archibald, 12tb Earl of Cassillis and 1st Marquess of Ailsa in a Peer's Parliamentary robes and his wife, Margaret Erskine of Dun. The 12th Earl was a Representative Peer of Scotland, 1790-1806, in which year he was Created Baron Ailsa of Ailsa of the peerage of England. He was made a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1821 and raised to the dignity of Marquess of Ailsa in 1831.

The dressing case was a 'wedding present from the 3rd Marquess to his first wife, the Hon Evelyn Stuart, a pastel of whom hangs above it. The boat cradle was built by the Ailsa Shipbuilding ,Company for the , children of the 3rd 2 Marquess.