Bute House (Gaelic: Taigh BhÃÆ'²id ) is the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland located within Charlotte Square in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Together with two other offices in Holyrood and at St. Andrew, Bute House also has a smaller office used by the First Minister when at an official residence.
Located at 6 Charlotte Square in New Town, Edinburgh, it is a central home on the north side of the square, and designed by Robert Adam. This four-storey house contains Cabinet Room, office and conference, reception room, sitting room and dining room where the Prime Minister works, and where Scottish Government ministers, official and guest visitors are received and entertained. The second and third floors contain the personal residence of the First Minister. Bute House was presented to the National Trust for Scotland by the Marquess of Bute in 1966. Between 1970 and 1999 served as the official residence of the Secretary of State for Scotland. Since 1999 has been the official residence of the First Minister.
As well as serving as the official residence of the First Minister, Bute House is often used by the First Minister to hold press conferences, media briefings, Scottish Government cabinet meetings and appoint members to the Scottish Cabinet.
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Charlotte Square was designed by Robert Adam. Lord Provost and the Edinburgh City Council commissioned Adam to draw up plans for Square in 1791 as the first splendid summit of Edinburgh's first New Town. However, Adam died in 1792 and his completed design must be realized by others. The north side of Alun-Alun is built first and faithful to its intentions.
The plot in which Bute House now stands was sold in 1792 by a public roup (auction) to Orlando Hart, a shoemaker, a prominent member of the Town Council and a deacon-convener of trade in Edinburgh, for Ã, 290 pounds. In 1806, Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet bought a newly completed house at 6 Charlotte Square for Ã, £ 2950. Sinclair is a Whig politician and a writer in finance and agriculture. He is also responsible for Scottish First Statistics Account compilation. Sir John Sinclair sold the house in 1816 to Lieutenant Colonel William Gabriel Davy.
In May 1818, the house was purchased from Davy by Henry Ritchie from Busbie. Ritchie is a Glasgow merchant, a partner at Thistle Bank, and a landowner in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. He sold his Charlotte Square townhouse to Charles Oman, the hotel and vintner guard, in May 1825. Oman, a native of Caithness, has owned various hotels and coffee shops in Edinburgh for decades, including Waterloo Hotel in Waterloo Place town until purchase of 6 Charlotte Square. Oman transformed his new townhouse into Oman's Hotel, which will remain for more than 20 years. The jewelry materials for the hotel name papers can still be seen today on the exterior walls above the front entrance of Bute House.
Oman died in August 1826, but the hotel continued to operate under the ownership of his widow, Mrs. Grace Oman (nÃÆ' Â © e Burns). Charles X of exiled France stayed at the hotel for a short time in 1832, during the second exile period in Edinburgh. After the death of Mrs Oman in 1845, 6 Charlotte Square was sold by his heir to Alexander Campbell of Cammo, who stayed at home with his family until his death in 1887. Campbell commissioned David Rhind to make changes and additions to the house in 1867. Homeowners next is Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet, who will make it his home for the next 30 years. A partner in his family timber business, and a director of the Bank of Scotland, he also served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1897 to 1900. In 1889, Mitchell-Thomson hired architect Thomas Leadbetter to make further changes to the 6 Charlotte Boxes.
Bute family: 1922-66
John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, has a special enthusiasm for the value of ease of Scottish city scenery, and from the early 1900s onwards he began buying central homes on the north side of Charlotte Square, with the aim of restoring the original design of Adam has been compromised by a 19th century intrusion, including a roof window and a change in the proportion of first floor windows. Lord Bute acquired the house in the first No. 5, in 1903, and completely restored its interior in the luxurious Adam Revival style, complementing the main rooms with antique furnishings that could serve as the home of Butes town in Edinburgh. He then obtained No. 6 in 1922 and No. 7 in 1927. Lord Bute's enthusiasm for Charlotte Square was given a permanent expression when the City of Edinburgh requested the City Planning (Scotland) Act 1925 to implement the Edinburgh Town Planning Scheme (Charlotte Square). Order, 1930. The Bute family then moved from home in No. 1. 5 to the neighboring property at No. 6, take a lot of contents No. 5 with them.
In May 1966, the Ministry of Finance received no. 5, 6 and 7 Charlotte Square in lieu of partial death duties on the 5th Marquess of Bute plantation, which died in 1956. The three houses belong to the National Trust for Scotland, proposing to lease No 6 for a new trust that will manage the home as official residence for the Secretary of State for Scotland, as a building where he could be while in Edinburgh and where honored visitors can be received and entertained. The Bute House Trust was formed in 1966 to bring this idea to fruition. The Trustees raised the £ 40,000 needed for change and redecoration of the house and its furnishings. The interior decoration and color scheme is the responsibility of Lady Victoria Wemyss and Colin McWilliam. Due to tight funding, Bute House's interior improvements depend on a number of loans.
Bute House is not owned by the Scottish Government, but it remains in possession of the National Trust for Scotland, a charitable organization dedicated to the preservation of historic buildings and sites that have a natural meaning throughout the country. The property is also legally under the supervision of the Bute House Trustees, a group whose existence is provided in the form of a genuine belief that passes ownership of the Bute family.
Official residence
From 1970 and beyond, after the House was renewed after the previous owners had given it and two houses adjacent to the National Trust for Scotland, the Bute House became the residence of elegance and kindness in Edinburgh from the Secretary of State to Scotland, the British government minister in charge of Scottish interests in Westminster, which remained inhabitants in it until devolution in 1999.
This is the setting for the weekly Scottish Government Cabinet meeting, which meets in what was once the study of the Secretary of State. The First Minister also greets officials, and holds ministerial receptions and press conferences. Also located in the building are private studies as well as offices, kitchens and overnight accommodation. Also where, like the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, the First Minister made a press conference and hired and dismissed government ministers.
Repair and recovery
In 2017, after conducting an extensive survey of the building's condition carried out by the building conservator, Bute House was closed for urgent repairs, with the First Minister having to pour the building until the required work was completed. The work to Bute House is being coordinated by the Scottish Historic Environment, with "temporary measures" applied to the First Minister for residence and cabinet meetings while the building is being refurbished.
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Room and features
Front and front room
The Bute House is unusual for New Town homes in Edinburgh, as it has a central front door. The main entrance for most homes in New Town is usually placed on the same side as the stairs. However, the central door of the Bute House is an important function of Adam's court front. The wide entrance door and four panels are made of polished black oak. Between the top panel set is the Roman numerals of brass "VI". Below the numbers, between the bottom set of panels, there is a brass letter on the left side of the door, and a brass door knocker on the right side. The door is framed by a small side window and decorated with a semicircle fan window. Black iron railings stretched along the front of the house and climbed to each side of the six-step flight to the entrance. Fences rise on both sides of the front step to support the iron gas lamp. Stay under both lamps is a brass plaque with the words "Bute House NÃ, º 6 Charlotte Square Official Residence of The First Minister".
The original plan for the entrance lobby or the front room of the Bute House is unknown. The front room is present and the decor is designed for 4 Marquess of Bute in 1923 by its architect, Arthur Forman Balfour Paul. The accuracy with which this space is redecorated shows that the front room inherited by Lord Bute may have been widely adapted to Victorian taste.
Since the front room does not open directly to the stairs, Balfour Paul strives to ensure that it will not look dark and forbidden by deciding to welcome visitors with a friendly middle chimneypiece in white marble overlooking the front door. The front room plan is T-shaped, with curves that lead from the right and left sides of the fireplace. The front room has a rosette ceiling, very decorative plasterwork in Adam Revival style, and a brick floor of Caithness polished in octagons and squares, in a Georgian way. To compensate for the displacement of the bright daylight outside, into the dark front room, the convex mirror of the Regency is above the fireplace. The painting on the east wall is by Scottish artist James McIntosh Patrick.
Staircase
The staircase, illuminated by a circular dome towering above decorative prints and wall hangings, was very dark for New Town's house in New Edinburgh as it continued up to the attic floor. Cantilever stone stairs will usually stop on the second floor or bedroom, with the arrangement of wooden stairs that continually to the attic. The top flight of stairs was probably added in 1889 by Thomas Leadbetter, at the request of Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, who wanted the upstairs billiard room of the Bute House, to take advantage of the spectacular northern views of the Firth of Forth.
To compensate for the darkness on the ground floor, the walls were repainted in 2001 with very light stone colors, repeating the existing scheme, whilst a white painted ledge - a common late 18th-century treatment. Photographs of all past First Ministers adorn the wall of stairs on the ground floor. Wall clock by James Ivory of Dundee, who stood at the foot of the stairs, was given to Bute House in 1970.
Drawing space
The current green color scheme in the living room starts from 1985 when the damask curtain is introduced. This room features elaborate ceiling plaster, with the same repeating decoration decoration with a ceiling decoration. In 1923, Lord Bute and Balfour Paul complemented this ceiling by introducing new doors in the same Adam style, along with ornamental chimneypiece with a central tablet depicting Venus and Cupid and a vase echoing the decor. The new single-leafed doors replaced the nineteenth-century double doors, which linked this large drawing space in front of the Bute House, to the drawing room now a closet space.
The French chandelier was one of three spectacular Bute sections of the family, received in lieu of death duties by the Treasury Department and then moved with the house into the care of the National Trust for Scotland. The full portrait on the north wall is painted by Allan Ramsay and shows John Stuart, the 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), Scotland's first Prime Minister of England. Although long regarded as a copy by Ramsay's Studio, this painting is now recognized as an original portrait commissioned in 1758 by the Prince of Wales, then King George III.
Other paintings in the room were borrowed from the Scottish National Gallery. The Millennium Modern silver collection is commissioned by the Goldsmiths Establishment and now owned by the Scottish Goldsmiths Trust. It was made to celebrate the return of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and it is a permanent loan to the First Minister to promote the quality of Scottish silverware. The chimney-lined chimney glass chimney is linked to London cabinet maker John Mackie. The 18th century mirror was originally created for the Duff House drawing room in Banffshire. The large mahogany bookcase on the east wall features a glass collection of Bute House, carved by Harold Gordon with pictures of birds and Scottish wildflowers.
Cabinet space
When Bute House was first completed as an official residence in 1970, this room was intended as a Library or private study of the Secretary of State. With the establishment of the Scottish Government in 1999, it became a cabinet space. The original appearance of the room, with its strong color scheme takes the chimneypiece chocolate marble, recorded in a piece of Harry More Gordon's conversation depicting all the Secretaries of State for the Scots in a row. This room retains its original cornice but chimneypiece and southern-shaped treatment, which replaced the 19th-century double folding door leading to the front drawing space, introduced in 1923 by Lord Bute and Balfour Paul.
Colin McWilliam designed a desk and bookcase that incorporated a copy of Robert Adam's portrait medal by James Tassie, for this room. The modern reproduction of the rear seats of the Georgian staircase is meant to complement the existing dining chair suites at Bute House. The chandelier was originally in the Butes dining room on the ground floor and now belongs to the National Trust for Scotland.
Dining room
In 1967, the Bute House Trust commissioned a mahogany dining table from Leslie & amp; Leslie from Haddington. The table is styled in the late 18th century, in keeping with the character of the house, and sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Watt. Miss Watt also commissioned the modern rosewood sideboard from the infamous wardrobe maker, Edward Barnsley.
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References
- Bute House Guidebook (2002). The Scottish executive.
- Gifford, John, McWilliam, Colin & amp; Walker, David (1984). Edinburgh: Scotland Building (Pevsner Architectural Guide) . Yale Press University. ISBN 978-0-300-09672-9.
- Paton, Hugh (1842). A series of Original Portraits and Caricature Caricatures by the late John Kay . Hugh Paton, Edinburgh.
- Youngson, A.J. (2001). The Companion Guide to Edinburgh and Borders . Companion Guide. ISBN 978-1-900-63938-5.
External links
- First Office of the Scottish Minister
- The Scottish Government
- Scottish Parliament
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