View from SW Digital image of B/45400/CN
SC 747410
Description View from SW Digital image of B/45400/CN
Date 1/8/1990
Catalogue Number SC 747410
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 45400 CN
Scope and Content Farmhouse, Gowanbank Farm, West Lothian, from south-west Gowanbank Farm, some 9.6km south-west of Linlithgow, was the country home of Sir James Gowans (1821-90), a prominent Scottish architect, railway engineer and quarry manager. A man of great vigour, he combined a passion for craftsmanship with a desire to improve the quality of working class housing. This shows the plain, 1820s part of the farmhouse on the right and a section of Gowans' mid-19th-century additions on the left. The dormer windows and the masonry detail, shaped like teeth, round the right-hand chimney-stack demonstrate the originality of Gowans' design over the original. Walter Gowans, a master mason, bought Gowanbank when his son, James, was still a boy. Although the family moved to Edinburgh to take advantage of the commercial opportunities offered by the city's rapid expansion, they kept Gowanbank, which Sir James later transformed into a stylish country house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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