The servants' stairs ......

..... are one of 5 staircases in Blair Drummond House.

From the main entrance door all visitors reach the first level via the grand carved oak central staircase.

A carved oak door at the top of this staircase leads to the the servants' staircase and glass double doors lead to the gallery which runs the full length of the house. Being the servants' stairs they are the quickest way of getting around the house and are the stairs most used today. They connected the original kitchens, larders, and servant's' quarters with the living quarters of the family. You can access all areas of the house from them.

At the opposite end of the gallery there are a further set of servants' stairs which are not original to the house and which connect the ground floor with the three upper floors with only one door leading off each landing.

The family's reception rooms run down one side of the gallery and on the opposite side, off the middle of the gallery, there is a carved oak staircase leading to the Minstrel's Gallery and what was the family's upper living quarters on the second and third floors of the house. On the second floor were the family bedrooms and on the third floor a squash court complete with a viewing gallery.

The fifth is the stone spiral staircase which ascends the tower from the ground floor. These stairs are used to reach the tower rooms which are used for storage today and, of course, to reach the external tower gallery which affords magnificent views over the carse towards the Wallace Monument and Stirling Castle.