Morning Room

Just off the Entrance Hall, this room was the principal bedroom on the Adam plan, but was never used as such. It was used as a study, office, and sitting room by the family. It was fitted out after 1795 and contains a marble fireplace, typical of those found in the New Town of Edinburgh. The wallpaper is copied from a design at Temple Newsam, near Leeds, dating to c.1820. In 2022 this room was changed into the permanent exhibition about past owners links with the transatlantic slave trade.
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Armchair

Thomas Chippendale Junior (1749-1822)
c. 1786
Mahogany and upholstery

Secretaire cabinet

Thomas Chippendale Snr (1718-79) and Thomas Chippendale Jnr (1749-1822)
c.1775-79
Mahogany, brass, leather, and baize

Caribbean-produced brown sugar, a sugarloaf, sugar snips, a silver sugar bowl and silver sugar tongs

Tea urn stand with porcelain teacup, saucer and silver teapot

Unnamed maker
c.1750-70
Mahogany, brass

Secretaire bookcase

1774-76
Mahogany, oak, brass, and leather

A View of the Paraclete Estate, Grenada, with an enslaved man in a red coat

Adam Callander (1750-1817)
1789
Gouache on vellum

A view of (probably) Paraclete estate with a waterfall, boy, cart and oxen

Adam Callander (1750-1817)
1789
Gouache on vellum

A View of the Paraclete Estate showing the Mill House, Boiling House, and stores

Adam Callander (1750-1817)
1789
Gouache on vellum

A View of the Paraclete Estate, Grenada, from the south-east

Adam Callander (1750-1817)
1789
Gouache on vellum

A View of the Paraclete estate, Grenada

Adam Callander (1750-1817)
1789
Gouache on vellum

A View of the Paraclete Estate, Grenada, looking towards the sea

Adam Callander (1750-1817)
1789
Gouache on vellum

A View of Paraclete Estate, Grenada, with Ninian and Penelope Home in a carriage

Adam Callander (1750-1817)
1789
Gouache on vellum