Marchmont House

11/06/2025

After a sell-out debut performance at Marchmont in 2024, we are delighted to welcome St Salvator’s Chapel Choir back to Marchmont on 29th June to sing in Marchmont’s majestic oak-panelled Music Room, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.

St. Salvator’s Chapel Choir is the flagship choir of the University of St Andrews. A mixed-voice ensemble of around twenty-five students, the choir’s history extends back to the founding of the University in the early fifteenth century, when students were obliged to sing in the University’s chapel. These choristers were referred to as the ‘Choristi Sanctiandree’.

The concert will be the first in our four-part Music at Marchmont 2025 series, led by Marchmont’s Musical Director Simon Leach.

Doors will open at 15:00 for pre-concert tea and coffee, and home baked goods, which are included in the ticket price. The concert will start at 16:15 and finish at 17:30, without an interval.

The programme includes a mixture of fine sacred and secular unaccompanied choral music from the Renaissance to the present day such as Howells’ Requiem, and a selection of Scottish folk-songs.

Link in bio for TICKETS - https://www.marchmonthouse.com/music/music-at-marchmont-st-salvators

Photo credit: Lightbox Creative

10/05/2025

Flag flying at half mast in memory of Hugo today

Hugo Aylesford Burge
06.04.72 - 10.05.23

13/03/2025

A reminder that our first guided tours of the year take place this weekend to coincide with the Borders Art Fair which is always an inspiring demonstration of Borders creativity, and a showcase for a great many friends of Marchmont.

Our informal, but expertly guided tours allow visitors to view one of the best restored houses in Scotland and its significant and eclectic collections of art, sculpture and textiles spanning over 550 years.

There are four tours each day starting at 11am, Noon, 1pm and 2pm. Ticket holders are welcome to enjoy tea, coffee, home-baked goods, and a delicious buffet lunch in the Old Kitchen Gallery before or after their tours.

https://www.marchmonthouse.com/tours/house-tours

06/02/2025

We are pleased to announce that our first guided tours of the year will coincide with the Borders Art Fair which is always an inspiring demonstration of Borders creativity, and a showcase for a great many friends of Marchmont.

Our House tours are expertly guided, but informal and allow visitors to view one of the best restored houses in Scotland and its significant and eclectic collections of art, sculpture and textiles spanning over 550 years.

Ticket holders are also welcome to enjoy tea, coffee, home-baked goods, or even a buffet lunch in the Old Kitchen Gallery before and after their tours.

The first tour is at 11am on both Saturday and Sunday but spaces are limited so please book now to avoid disappointment.

https://www.marchmonthouse.com/tours/house-tours

Special guided tours will be taking place at nearby Marchmont House over the weekend of the Borders Art Fair. Don't miss this chance to see inside one of Scotland's most beautifully renovated and curated private homes.

Booking is essential at www.marchmonthouse.com

Marchmont House

08/09/2024

It was a pleasure to welcome Charlotte Lorimer today who had booked onto a House Tour.

Charlotte is the great-granddaughter of the eminent Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer who was responsible for the ‘aggrandisement’ of Marchmont in the early 20th Century for the McEwen family.

Creator of the spectacular Music Room, just one of his numerous additions to the House, Lorimer delighted in the ‘dawn chorus’ or as he referred to it ‘The Birds’ Morning Hymn’. He was particularly keen on the song of the Blackbird, and they are a recurring motif at Marchmont as seen here on the main staircase he designed.

He shared his passion in a letter to the Times in 1929 “…if any readers of The Times who are interested, and who happen to live or spend their weekends near some bird-haunted spinney, can contrive — once in a way — to wake up at half-past 4, I strongly urge them to wrap up in warm dressing-gowns, stand at their open window for five minutes, and they will be rewarded. Their beds will feel the warmer, their subsequent dreams will be the sweeter, for the rare experience.”

29/07/2024

We are delighted to be able to welcome Sophie Yates to Marchmont. The doyenne of the harpsichord, she will play our Flemish style that was hand-built by Andrew Garlick who will also be in attendance.

Sophie, best known for her affinity with English and French music, will play a variety of pieces to fully exploit the range of this often overlooked instrument.

Tickets are available now, including a combined House Tour and Concert ticket with tea, and an option to stay overnight. Come to hear (and see) the artistry for yourself: https://www.marchmonthouse.com/events/sophie-yates-harpsichord-recital

17/07/2024

We're delighted to have made the shortlist in the Scottish Borders Chamber of Commerce awards for 2024 in the 'Excellence in Hospitality and tourism' category which is sponsored by Scottish Borders Council. The results are announced on 30th August.

🌟 Congratulations to our finalists for the Excellence in Hospitality and Tourism Award!

We're excited to recognise
Invisible Cities
Marchmont House
Robert Smail's Printing Works NTS
Unique Cottages
for their outstanding contributions to the industry.

Join us at the award ceremony to celebrate their success.

Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3zA9cFZ

12/07/2024

Our expertly guided House Tours tend to sell out very quickly but due to a last minute cancellation we now have 3 spaces left at 3pm tomorrow afternoon. Why not come in time for tea, coffee and a delicious selection of homemade cakes. Advance booking is essential, please go to:

We are only open to the public for a limited number of days each year and run monthly 'Tour Days' - each with a number of bookable guided tours. Refreshments are also available.

07/06/2024

We're delighted to welcome the highly acclaimed clarinettist John Bradbury and the sublime Victoria String Quartet to Marchmont, seen here putting the finish touches to Charles Villiers Stanford's elegant 'Fantasy No. 1'.

You are invited to hear them perform live at Marchmont both tonight, Friday 7th June, and tomorrow Saturday 8th at 7pm.

Ticket are still available:
https://www.marchmonthouse.com/events/stanford-centenary-weekend

The are also playing compositions by Mozart and Brahms and our composer-in-Residence Helen Leach in the spectacular setting of Sir Robert Lorimer's oak-panelled Music Room as part of our Stanford Centenary Weekend. Doors open at 6:30pm for a complimentary glass for Champagne Deutz.

We do hope you will join us.

20/05/2024

What could be more appropriate for 'World Bee Day' than a snippet of Helen Leach's exquisite "Diary of the Bee" performed here by the acclaimed clarinettist John Bradbury and The Victoria String Quartet.

You are invited to hear them perform it live at Marchmont on Friday 7th June at 7pm along side compositions by Mozart and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford in the spectacular setting of Sir Robert Lorimer's oak-panelled Music Room - part of our Stanford Centenary Weekend.

To book tickets:
https://www.marchmonthouse.com/events/stanford-centenary-weekend

09/05/2024

Remembering Hugo today

Hugo Aylesford Burge
06.04.72 - 10.05.23