A room used for entertaining on a grand scale, as the name implies.

The Drawing Room was initially intended as a Dining Room, hence the buffet-de-niches where food and plates would have been housed before serving. By the 1670s it changed to a State Drawing Room with three tall recessed windows ensuring a light, bright room.

The wallpaper is crimson Genoa silk dating from the mid-18th century, some of which was replaced in 1961. The Drawing Room was a formal room used to entertain important guests and seen as the pinnacle of the 2nd Duke's renovations. The room employs materials such as stucco plaster, marble, wood and even embroidery work.