This room was originally used as the Dressing Room for the Principal Bedroom. Ninian and Penelope’s servants would have helped the couple dress in here. Martine and Frederick, their enslaved servants who lived at Paxton in the late 1780s, probably served as a Lady’s maid and manservant.

The room was heated by the fire in the grate. All the wood, coal, and ashes would have been carried by hand up and down the spiral servant’s staircase which led to the basement of the house and beyond to the kitchen and gardens.

The chimneypiece is ornately carved in relief with floral garlands hanging from tied ribbands, husk and ribband trails, reel moulding, stepped frieze, and acanthus leaves, but it is thickly coated in layers of paint. It was paid for with money derived from the labour of enslaved people on the Home’s Grenadian estates.