Dilkusha in Hindi means Happy Heart. I wonder if this house was built by a gentleman retired and returning from India, perhaps from Lucknow, where the Dilkusha Gardens are to be found.
It was and still is a splendid house, its back windows commanding a view over Tweed bridge and the north side of the town from its elevated position on the south of the river. This is the front entrance. To the right peeping up above the hedge you can see the top of the floor-to-ceiling rounded windows of what was probably a small ballroom. Some years ago the Dilkusha was a small hotel, with the dining room in that room. I had Christmas dinner there one year and it was quite spectacular with a tall Christmas tree in what was possibly the alcove where the musicians sat to play for the dancers of that long ago ballroom.
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