Hopetoun House. View of colonade connecting stable block to main house.

Description Hopetoun House. View of colonade connecting stable block to main house.

Date 3/1962

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number WL 294

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 766876

Scope and Content Colonnade between main block and stable pavilion, Hopetoun House, West Lothian This shows the north colonnade which links the main house to the stable pavilion. A row of Doric columns forms an open walkway below a balustraded pediment above. A row of stone vases and a Classical-style figure of a lady holding an anchor (part of the family coats of arms) are silhouetted against the sky. The concave colonnades were designed by John and Robert Adam, and replace convex flanking wings built by Sir William Bruce. Visitors arriving via the east gate would pass through a columned gateway which mirrors the design of the Adam front, hinting at the impressive view of the main house to come. Hopetoun House, the seat of the Marquis of Linlithgow, was built 1699-1704 to designs by architect Sir William Bruce (c.1630-1710). Between 1721 and 1748 architect William Adam (1689-1748), and his sons Robert (1728-92) and John (1721-92) designed extensions to the central block, flanked by curving colonnades leading to advanced pavilions containing stables (north) and a ballroom (south). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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