The Corinthian-columned and triumphal-arched buffet is designed in the early 18th Century Roman manner, popularised by James Gibbs' Book of Architecture, 1728. Richly parquetried in quoined tablets of ray-figured walnut, it is also inlaid with sunbursts, while the floor of its scallop-shelved niche is inlaid with a demi-sunburst and echoes a golden sunburst rising in the cove above an antique-fluted pilaster.

A related buffet with quoin-sculpted arch enclosing a shell-sculpted niche was incorporated in the dining-room designed for Frampton Court, Gloucestershire in 1731 (C. Hussey, 'Frampton Court, Gloucestershire', Country Life, 8 October 1927, p. 542). The design of another corner-buffet at Brunstane House, Edinburgh has also been dated to the 1730s and attributed to the architect William Adam (d. 1748) (I. Gow, 'The Buffet-Niche in Eighteenth-Century Scotland', Furniture History, 1994, pp. 103-116, fig. 9).