Hopetoun House. View of gate lodge.
WL 477
Description Hopetoun House. View of gate lodge.
Date 6/1963
Collection Scottish Development Department
Catalogue Number WL 477
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 766902
Scope and Content Old East Lodge, Hopetoun House, West Lothian This shows the early 19th-century East Lodge, also known as Butlaw Lodge. It is built of coursed rubble surmounted by a piended (hipped) slate roof, which contrasts with a semicircular entrance with round-headed windows. A columned doorway adds importance to the façade. Gate lodges are the first part of the estate seen by a visitor, so were often used to suggest the wealth and taste of the landowner, and to reflect the style of the main house. They housed the gatekeeper and his family, whose job was to monitor who was arriving or leaving the estate. Some large estates might have several lodges at their many entrances. 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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