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Dimensions and Details
The first floor was a series of interconnected rooms, while on the top floor (the sleeping area), the rooms led directly off the staircase.
The house was extended and modernised in 1885 by Henry Beveridge, a wealthy mill owner whose name lives on in Kirkcaldy as Beveridge Park, and in Dunfermline where the old Erskine Beveridge linen mill has been converted into a block of flats and renamed Erskine Beveridge Court (on the A823 from Pitreavie, between the ASDA store and the Jet filling station).
The North and West walls are probably the only original parts left. Beveridge had windows inserted in the ground floor and created bay windows in the south wall. The original entry path to the living quarters, through the kitchen and up a narrow circular staircase was thought unbecoming for a wealthy man and his guests, and so he created the portico which now forms the entrance to the building. He extended the building to the east, and gutted the east wing to create an elegant staircase. He had a stained glass window inset into the north wall of the east wing. This window contains two sets of armorial bearings complete with two mottos. Above the new entrance door may be seen a third motto - and all three are different!
Beveridge also transformed the grounds, creating the water garden and building a narrow-gauge railway line running from the garden, past the house to the end of the drive. The sundial dating from 1644, which stood on the South lawn, was still in place in 1928, but ten years later had been moved to its present site in Inveresk Lodge Garden, Musselburgh.