Paxton House, Berwickshire

It is a country house built for Patrick Home of Billie in an unsuccessful attempt to woo a Prussian heiress.

The East Wing was added in 1812-13 by architect Robert Reid to house the library and picture gallery.

Formerly the seat of the Paxton family, who became Forman-Home, Milne-Home, and finally Home-Robertson as the direct male lines failed and the inheritance progressed through a female.

Later on, Jean Home, who was to inherit the house and the paintings, employed the Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland, architect Robert Reid (1776–1856), to build what is now the East Wing of Paxton House to accommodate a library and a gallery.

Patrick Home's pictures are now dispersed; a collection from the National Gallery has been hung in their place in the 19th-century manner.