Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566743
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Balbardie House, 1793, Robert Adam (demolished)
Built for Alexander Marjoribanks, Balbardie was Robert's last villa, set in an outstandingly beautiful landscape. The central block a storey higher, with steeply pitched roof, the pedimented and pilastered first floor was linked to its pavilions by two outstanding exedrae (concave-vaulted porches). The Balbardie coal mine tunnelled underneath. Once the Marjoribanks abandoned it, it became occupied by miners then demolished in 1956 following subsidence. Recollected in Balbardie Park, with its long, yellow, metal-clad Sports Centre, 1987
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
