Hopetoun House, interior. View of dining room.

Description Hopetoun House, interior. View of dining room.

Date 3/1962

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

Catalogue Number WL 325

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 766868

Scope and Content Garden Room, Hopetoun House, West Lothian Formerly known as the Entrance Hall and the Dining Room This shows the entrance hall of the original Bruce house. This room was later used as a dining room, and is now known as the 'Garden Room', as doors open from it into the gardens. The walls are covered in oak panelling and gilded Ionic pilasters frame the built-in cupboard with its glazed doors (centre). As a welcoming entrance hall this room would have been used by guests to remove their outdoor coats and cloaks before entering the reception rooms of the house. As a dining room, guests would be seated around a central table to enjoy elaborate and lengthy meals, which would be served to them by footmen from a sideboard. In both cases, the room's elegant furnishings would emphasise the wealth of the host and his family. 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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